[0:00] Good.
[0:03] » Welcome to the Brian City Council
meeting on March 2nd, 26.
[0:08] » All please stand for the pledge.
>> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the
[0:14] United States of America and to the
republic for which it stands, one nation
[0:20] under God, indivisible, with liberty and
justice for all.
[0:27] [clears throat]
[0:34] Um, I'd like to uh a motion to approve
the minutes of the February 16th
[0:40] meeting. [cough]
>> I'll make a motion.
[0:43] » I'll second.
>> Mary,
[0:45] » yes.
>> Steve,
[0:46] » yes.
>> Jim,
[0:48] » yes.
>> Yes.
[0:50] » Yes.
for a hearing of public concerns.
[1:00] Hearing none,
proceed.
[1:05] Item number four, an ordinance providing
for annual appropriations.
[1:10] John, would you please number and read?
Ordinance number 10, 2026, an ordinance
[1:15] providing for annual appropriations for
the city of Ryan fiscal year ending
[1:20] December 31, 2026,
declaring emergency.
[1:25] There's one item in this ordinance and
I'd like uh Chief P to come up and
[1:29] explain what that is.
>> Good evening.
[1:33] » Good evening.
>> So, I forewarned you when I did the
[1:36] annual report, we may have a more
expensive repair with the town. We sent
[1:41] [clears throat] it down for the first
repair. They looked at it and uh they
[1:46] came back said, "Yes, you need to do
it." The good news is it's not 30 to
[1:49] 40,000. It's about 19 and a half, so
almost 20,000
[1:55] uh in this repair.
So, that's what we're looking at with
[2:00] this appropriation.
[2:06] » What's the repair?
[clears throat]
[2:09] Believe it or not, it's little plastic
slide blocks,
[2:13] but they all have to be custom miked and
uh they've lasted 31 years. So,
[2:20] yeah,
>> it was good plastic.
[2:21] » Yeah, it's good plastic. That's why it
costs that much. And they can't work on
[2:25] it until the first repair is done
because they have to extend it to be
[2:29] able to get to it. And that is a two
week repair. We're about halfway through
[2:33] that right now. So, we're probably not
going to see it back until mid-March,
[2:38] even with this repair done.
>> So, I assume that's on the ladder.
[2:43] » Yes, that the tower. Yeah, it's in the
ladder section itself.
[2:46] » Uh engine wise, chassis wise, we haven't
had any issues with this truck. We're
[2:51] just not putting miles on it. So, those
are all good parts. It goes in and out
[2:56] when we run it every week to test it.
>> Sure.
[3:01] » Well, I'll move.
>> I'll second. Jim,
[3:05] » yes.
>> Steve,
[3:06] » yes.
>> Rick,
[3:07] » yes.
>> Mary,
[3:08] » yes. And John,
>> yes.
[3:10] » Move to approve.
>> And I'll second.
[3:13] » Mary,
>> yes.
[3:14] » Rick,
>> yes.
[3:15] » Jim,
>> yes.
[3:16] » Steve,
>> yes.
[3:17] » And
>> yes.
[3:19] » Thank you.
>> Thank you.
[3:20] » Thank you,
>> Chief.
[3:24] [clears throat] Agenda item number five.
P's number and read. Ordinance number
[3:28] 11, 2026, an ordinance for the transfer
of funds for the city of Brian for the
[3:34] month ending March 31, 2026.
[clears throat]
[3:40] An ordinance providing for the transfer
of funds for the city of Ryan for the
[3:44] month ending March 31, 2026.
All of the items from this transfer um
[3:50] accommodate the closure of the re uh
refu and recycling fund, the
[3:56] communications fund, and the
communications capital fund. Um, as
[4:00] we've discussed now multiple times, um,
those funds are no longer needed because
[4:05] those services are no longer provided,
but they hold balances.
[4:09] And, uh,
we have determined that the balances in
[4:14] the communications fund rightfully
belong to the electric fund, which is
[4:18] where they'll end up in the c in the
communications capital fund should
[4:22] belong in the electric capital fund,
which is where they'll end up as a
[4:26] result of this. and in the refuge and
recycling about a $300,000 balance. Um
[4:35] the logical and arguably best place to
put it barring any discussion from you
[4:40] folks is the streets department. Um, and
we have asked uh Tyson and others
[4:46] [clears throat] to consider how that
might be used uh for a one-time since
[4:50] it's a one-time influx of money um to
build it into some kind of a one-time
[4:56] capital project, possibly an improvement
to their building facility or something,
[5:01] not just build it into the operating
because again, it's a one-time influx of
[5:05] money that the streets fund. Um,
all that we accomplished with this
[5:11] simple little ordinance.
[5:16] » I'll move to suspend.
>> I'll second.
[5:23] » Rick,
>> yes.
[5:24] » Jim,
>> Steve,
[5:27] » yes.
>> Mary,
[5:28] » yes.
>> Yes.
[5:29] » And I'll move to approve.
>> I'll second. [clears throat]
[5:32] » Steve,
>> yes.
[5:34] » Jerry,
>> yes.
[5:35] » Jim,
>> yes. Rick.
[5:36] » Yes.
>> Yes.
[5:38] » Thank you.
[5:42] » Agenda [snorts] item number six.
>> Resolution number 19, 2026, the
[5:48] resolution approving and adopting the
Williams County [cough]
[5:52] Plan and declaring an emergency.
>> Uh good evening again. I'll speak to
[5:57] this. Um the there's a requirement
within the county to review this plan
[6:03] periodically. uh they've been asking for
input from the city, emergency
[6:08] management, LAPC, having several of
those hats have been involved with this
[6:13] process over the last 6 months. Uh we've
had input from the city ranking where we
[6:18] see uh hazards, natural hazards within
the county. They put together this plan.
[6:25] Uh how many pages was
>> 771?
[6:28] » Yes.
>> So I did not print it for each of you.
[6:31] » Email that to me, would you?
>> Sure. [laughter]
[6:34] We will.
>> Yeah. A a lot of a lot of it is uh
[6:37] statistical data. Um looking at
populations,
[6:42] uh different hazard areas, what are
probability for wind storms, tornadoes,
[6:47] worst case scenario, the probability of
earthquakes, dam breaks, a lot of those
[6:51] things. And they compile it all into one
master plan. And then it requires uh an
[6:58] approval to accept. then it's our turn
to uh accept that.
[7:03] » Is part of this plan like of um heaven
forbid but a railroad derailment with
[7:10] hazard materials.
>> This one is primarily natural disasters.
[7:14] So So they're looking at at things like
uh drought uh extreme uh snow events,
[7:23] floods, things of that nature. what
covers that that I just spoke of
[7:29] » that is part of the LEAPC we look at as
well as the uh u man what they would
[7:35] consider man-made hazards and uh those
are addressed in a different uh plan.
[7:41] This is primarily the natural
hazard mitigation that is developed and
[7:49] there's a lot of stuff there and a lot
of it is charts that you can pull online
[7:54] and then some of it's just compilation
of many many um different charts
[8:00] bringing them all together in one place.
[8:06] » I'll move to suspend.
>> I'll second
[8:10] » Jim. Yes,
>> Steve.
[8:12] » Yes,
>> Rick.
[8:13] » Yes,
>> Mary.
[8:14] » Yes, John.
>> Yes.
[8:16] » I'll move to approve
>> and I'll second.
[8:19] » Harry,
>> yes. Rick,
[8:20] » yes.
>> Jim,
[8:22] » yes.
>> Steve,
[8:23] » yes.
>> And John,
[8:24] » yes.
[8:31] Item seven, uh, police annual report.
Chief, yourself.
[8:38] » Evening, council. Good evening.
>> Good evening.
[8:46] » So, yeah, I'll just go through the
report. I believe you all had a copy of
[8:50] it in the packet.
[8:55] As you can see, we had handled 264 car
crashes, investigations, 563 traffic
[9:00] citations,
605 traffic warnings, a total of 9,22
[9:05] calls for service.
[9:10] Uh these are the personnel changes over
the year. We hired three full-time
[9:15] officers, two auxiliary officers, three
part-time dispatchers,
[9:19] one full-time officer, and one part-time
dispatcher.
[9:23] » So sorry.
>> No, you're doing fine.
[9:27] » The bike patrol, uh we had our hours
were down on that due to the ones that
[9:33] had applied for it. they were part of
our field training for the new hires.
[9:37] So, we weren't able to train those
officers to become um new members of the
[9:43] bike team. We are in the process of
getting them trained up for or hopefully
[9:48] this spring yet so they're ready to go
for summer. So, those are the numbers,
[9:52] the hours, and miles ridden.
[9:57] Uh just touching basis with the police
chaplain, that's still Pastor Michael
[10:01] Elkins from New Hope Church. He's been
with us now for I believe 6 years. He
[10:05] does a phenomenal job. Anytime we have a
traumatic event, we notify him. He'll
[10:09] come in, speak with the officers or
speak with family members as needed.
[10:16] Yeah, we are still with the Owens
Community College uh police consortium.
[10:21] I I think they raised the rate to $600
this year, which is a phenomenal fee.
[10:26] With that, we can send officers to a
vast array of trainings that they they
[10:30] host. Um and it doesn't cost us any
additional money. So that's that's a
[10:35] huge benefit. Um
overall most officers while the entire
[10:41] department we had over 1300 hours of
training in various topics, ethics,
[10:45] arrest, search and seizure, trauma and
wellness, domestic violence, vehicle
[10:49] dynamics, report writing, leadership. We
had some SWAT training and uh first
[10:54] first responder active shooters as well.
Um the state requires 40 hours and I we
[11:01] were well above that for each officer
and also the department now has three
[11:07] opata certified instructors so we can
teach courses inhouse and we we've been
[11:11] doing that as well
as as mentioned I'm you're fine you
[11:17] don't have to go back but the last line
on there is we are hosting several
[11:21] courses um locally we we hosted our SWAT
basic training um and some courses
[11:27] throughout. So, it's always nice to
bring other departments in, let them
[11:31] view facilities, and everybody's always
pretty envious of the the police and
[11:34] fire complex. Um, the fleet, not much
has changed there. We still have a total
[11:39] of 13 vehicles, nine marked patrol, four
unmarked. The the maintenance cost, I
[11:44] believe, was within $100 of what we're
where we were at last year. The fuel
[11:49] usage was pretty well spoton, and the
fuel cost, I think, was within $1,000,
[11:55] if I'm not mistaken. So
that hasn't really changed.
[12:00] » No, it was up. You see that? Because of
full staff levels.
[12:09] » Dispatch operations. We had 723 911
calls, 48,257
[12:16] radio calls, and 31,539
phone calls.
[12:24] OVIs were pretty steady with where
they've always been. A total of 48
[12:29] subjects subject tests were conducted on
the new machine. 27 of those were by
[12:36] Brian officers. There were additional
three subjects arrest for OBI, but
[12:39] testing used other methods. Typically,
that's a a urine test if the the
[12:45] machine's down for some reason. And
there was an increase of 25% in the OVI
[12:50] from the previous year.
[12:55] Uh again, you had the stats with you to
review for both the canines. Obviously,
[12:59] we retired Tyson out in um November of
last year. So that just leaves Bane and
[13:04] his hair has been out on medical leave.
So hopefully we'll we'll start seeing
[13:09] some activity with the dog before too
long.
[13:15] uh the multi-air narcotics task force
that continues to be a huge asset to
[13:19] Northwest Ohio. These are just uh stats
for Detective Rathky. Um but we, you
[13:26] know, we work collectively with Fulton,
Henry, Putnham, Pauline, Defiance, um
[13:32] and obviously Williams County, and
that's just the ones in the immediate
[13:36] area. Obviously, drug dealers don't care
where the jurisdiction lines are, which
[13:39] is why that task force is so important.
[13:48] calls for service. Um, it looks like
it's gone up dramatically. It's just
[13:52] really we we changed uh a little bit on
how guys were handling calls and
[13:58] actually showing showing their own
activity. A lot of times they were
[14:01] trying not to necessarily generate a
report for a call they didn't feel they
[14:05] needed to. Um, and that's just a matter
of
[14:10] kind of shooting yourself in the foot.
So, we expressed, you know, if you're if
[14:15] you have a call for service, you need to
make sure you're you're doing the report
[14:19] on it to get the credit for it.
That's just a graph to show the uh the
[14:27] call by volume by days and pretty
consistent across Sunday. I guess if
[14:33] you'd have to say was a slow day that it
would be Sunday. Next slide is okay. We
[14:39] had one for the hours of the day, but
that didn't change much. And then grants
[14:43] for the year. Um, we did the bulletproof
fest grant program. We received 27 or
[14:49] $2,73.38.
And the body worn camera grant was
[14:54] $8,959.25.
[14:57] So that's what we have.
Any questions?
[15:03] Okay. Thank you, sir.
>> Thank you, Chief.
[15:09] Hey, Chief.
>> I'm [clears throat] gonna I'm gonna put
[15:12] you on the spot for a minute. Sorry,
Wes. It's not your turn.
[15:15] » Uh, it is Wes's turn.
>> No, [laughter]
[15:19] » I'm going to really put you on the spot.
Can you come back to the podium?
[15:22] » Yeah, sure.
>> Since there's been a few articles in the
[15:24] paper,
[15:28] there was a call for 911 service that
was really low. And I think I want to
[15:32] explain to the council members because
they don't know. Um, cell phones and 911
[15:37] calls in the city of Brian automatically
go to central dispatch. Um, if you've
[15:42] been reading the paper,
eventually we're going to move to a
[15:46] nextgen 911, which actually will
geocatch the cell phone numbers. So, if
[15:51] you're in the city limits and you dial
911, it will go to our PAP at Brian PD.
[15:57] So, that will increase those calls
tremendously. Um, and and they will come
[16:02] to our dispatch first. So, there's been
a lot of stats and numbers that have
[16:07] been thrown out. Um, and if you have
questions, please directly call the
[16:12] chief on that or myself. Um, but what I
do want you to hesitate on is is those
[16:18] numbers are very preliminary and they're
not 100% accurate. Um, especially the
[16:23] estimates and cost. So, you've been
working with your team on getting
[16:27] estimates and cost.
>> Correct.
[16:28] » Correct. Yep. and um and different
versions of software and CAD as well. So
[16:36] um I think one thing that we did
discover is if we would relinquish our
[16:41] PAP
um in order to get it back, we would
[16:44] have to get permission from the county
commissioners and long-term I don't know
[16:48] that that's the best option for our
community um when we're all gone. Um so
[16:53] that's something that we have to really
take into consideration. Is there
[16:56] anything you would like to add? No, I
>> since I gave you no prep time for this
[17:02] discussion at all.
>> No, I mean that's that's fine, but yeah,
[17:04] unfortunately we are still waiting on
the quotes from the various vendors to
[17:08] to give you accurate numbers, I guess,
to say the least. So, but everything
[17:13] else was spot on.
>> Do we know where this is headed?
[17:17] » So, from my
Brian Times was my witness. I was there
[17:22] to sign a proclamation
um and then I got pulled into a room
[17:26] where NextGen 911 was 3 or four years
out and then all of a sudden it was Q4
[17:32] of this year. However, we're not sure
that that's completely accurate. We're
[17:36] not sure that some of the software is
going to be available and
[17:39] » yeah, without going into the fullon
conversation with the gentleman from the
[17:43] state,
>> they said the Q4 may not even happen
[17:46] this year. So it just like everything
else, the state's not 100% whether it's
[17:51] going to happen this year or not. So
>> So our hope is that we actually have
[17:54] time to build something into next year's
budget and it should be spread across a
[18:00] few years, several year period, not just
one year, lots of money. Um and when as
[18:05] we get more details, we certainly will
keep you guys involved in that
[18:09] discussion and decision making. Um and
and so we don't want you to think the
[18:13] cart got before the horse. Um there was
something that was long-term discussion
[18:19] that turned into a we need to make a
decision right now that turned into a
[18:24] well we've got some time. So um and in
the first time I was in the room they
[18:30] they were not. So in in fairness to them
like I no stats I didn't know which CAD
[18:37] software cloud anything other than I
knew that we used in digital and I knew
[18:43] that I didn't need to spend half a
million dollars and you know like there
[18:47] were some things in there. Um but I will
also tell you our dispatch service like
[18:51] there's some
I I know you guys know this. I haven't
[18:54] been shy about it. The whole time I've
been mayor, I have been talking to the
[18:57] commissioners about either consolidation
or working with them to combine things
[19:03] into our building. And I say that
because I think the east annex is not
[19:07] something that can be
I the public can't access the east annex
[19:13] at the back area where central is. And
you know, we
[19:17] um type charges for officers all over
the county um in the middle of the night
[19:21] so that no one has to come up from Brian
Municipal Court to do that at 2 a.m. We
[19:25] take bond for municipal court. That
saves bed um money for CCNO for the
[19:30] county commissioners when they have to
pay for that because those people don't
[19:33] go to jail. Um we are the only um agency
in the entire county that has the
[19:39] Intoxilizer for the OVIs. On top of
that, there's a camera there right into
[19:44] our dispatch. So, our dispatchers
witness those. That's a state
[19:46] requirement. I mean, there's a number of
things that that our 24-hour or 24/7
[19:52] building provides um that I don't think
the community should lose on
[19:58] outside of the dispatch piece. So,
there's a whole lot of things in
[20:01] discussion. Um so, I didn't want those
millions of dollars discussions. I don't
[20:07] think it's going to end up being like
that cost for the city of Brian. I
[20:11] didn't want you to worry about that. I
know that our team and and Chief Pool's
[20:15] been involved in the discussion um too.
Um we will look for
[20:21] the best service for our community at
the best price. Um we'll try to
[20:26] collaborate as much as we can with the
county. Um but we have before in the
[20:30] past gone a different way because maybe
they haven't spent the dollars that
[20:35] we're willing to spend. So we'll have to
see how it all shakes out. But you guys,
[20:39] when we do have estimates, we'll be
brought into that discussion and
[20:42] deliberation and decision-m. We just
don't have that for you yet.
[20:50] But I didn't want you to keep reading
articles and think we're holding out on
[20:53] you. We we truly don't have adequate
numbers for any of the dispatch
[20:57] conversations for Brian PD.
>> Well, it didn't seem like there were any
[21:00] adequate numbers available,
>> right,
[21:03] » based upon the article. the article
numerous times indicated that this
[21:07] wasn't available. This wasn't available.
So, it wasn't
[21:11] um it didn't seem like anything. It
wasn't a Brian Times issue. It wasn't
[21:15] even a City of Brian issue. It was just
they didn't have the stuff available for
[21:21] the very scenarios that
>> Yeah.
[21:23] » you've been talking about.
>> So, just wanted to kind of fill you in
[21:28] » since I put you on the spot. You're
welcome. Thank you.
[21:32] Okay, now it's Wes's turn. And he was so
excited. I'm sure the anxiety is just
[21:37] bubbling, isn't it? Steam on it. Oh,
>> I'm sorry. [laughter]
[21:42] » Good evening, council.
>> Good evening.
[21:47] » 2025.
[21:51] Yep. Just the overview that I show you
every year.
[21:54] » We got to figure out how to lighten that
cuz on my screen it looks delightful.
[21:58] » Yeah. Yeah.
Uh operational notes uh for 2025 total
[22:05] flow 525.6
million gallons through the plant. We
[22:11] had uh that's up just a little bit from
2024 but in the scope of things like
[22:17] it's basically the same. So running
about the same daily average 1.441
[22:23] million gallons a day through the plant
1.420 in 2024.
[22:29] Uh we ran 1.617
million gallons of digested class B
[22:36] solids were dewatered through the plant.
Uh that equates to 228
[22:42] tons of completely dry material. Uh 2024
it was 1.5 and 204. So we're up a little
[22:51] bit there. Uh still within the
parameters of just being an average year
[22:56] for us. And if I remember right, the dry
material is going to the landfill.
[23:00] » It is. Yeah.
>> Yep.
[23:04] » Uh suspended solids removal 94.5 is good
number. Uh all of these numbers are are
[23:11] really good numbers and you've heard me
in past years say the plant is just a
[23:16] really good design and the thing
operates really well once you get it
[23:20] dialed in. Uh CBOD
uh 97.8 8 removal which is fantastic.
[23:27] Ammonia removal 98.6
phosphorus which is one of the big
[23:32] drivers for problems in the lake uh 90.9
which is a pretty respectable number
[23:39] too. So plant operates well all over
through the cost and cost of treatment
[23:45] per gallon is 2 cents per gallon. And if
any of you keep track of the number that
[23:51] I give every year, I'm looking at you,
John, cuz you're the likely culprit.
[23:55] Normally, that's a percentage of 1%. It
might be 0.5
[24:01] half a cent per gallon or point4. Um,
this number is a lot higher this year
[24:08] just because it reflects the the project
that's going on out there. So, that
[24:11] money gets folded into the operating
cost. So, it's a uh it's a skewered
[24:17] number that we will see go back down at
some point here in the next year or two.
[24:21] Show up a little bit.
>> So, you wanted to do it that way so you
[24:23] didn't scare me,
>> right? It's still 2 cents a gallon. It's
[24:28] a bargain.
Okay. So, the the only thing that I
[24:33] really included tonight was just the
secondary treatment improvement project
[24:37] because that's where all the actions
happening this year. Uh this is an
[24:41] overview. The uh colored spots that you
see are where we're adding buildings or
[24:47] tankage out there.
Uh the next slide will be what's getting
[24:53] demoed. That is the old 1940s plant with
a little bit of that. The north tanks
[24:59] that you can see inside that rectangle
are uh where those those tanks were
[25:04] built I believe in 60 to 62. And all of
them are are failing obviously. That's
[25:11] why we kicked this project off. So, all
that will be gone when we're done with
[25:16] the uh new equipment buildings that come
in.
[25:21] This is uh a little bit of that tankage
that was in that rectangle there is
[25:26] being demoed out. And where the
excavators are sitting, that's basically
[25:31] the footprint of the new control
building is right there. So, we had to
[25:34] take that old tankage all the way down
to the bottom. Was down there about 12
[25:39] feet. we had to go and crushing concrete
with this this equipment. Uh LJ Irving,
[25:45] they're out of Napoleon and they they do
demo work and they do it very well. So
[25:50] this is this is us opening the ground.
Uh next slide, please. This is when they
[25:56] got done. They've just taken a chunk of
of the tankage out. Pretty much
[26:00] everything you can see in the forefront
of that that photo is still yet to be
[26:05] removed as we get a little bit further
on.
[26:10] uh backfilling that hole. We had to to
back fill everything with with uh
[26:15] compactable material, stone in there.
So, we we put hundreds and hundreds,
[26:21] probably thousands of tons of stone in
there to give a foundation for the new
[26:25] building.
Speaking of foundation, that's what this
[26:30] is. This is also the control building as
it's going up.
[26:35] the control building itself. Uh we're
getting a lot closer to completion on
[26:40] that. The the timeline we're looking at
right now is roughly maybe the end of
[26:46] March, the first week or two of uh
April, we'll we'll be moving into that
[26:52] building. Then they can get on with the
demo of the old building.
[26:57] Uh this is the chemical building that
we're building out there. Um you can see
[27:01] it's just just a plain jane block
structure. Uh nothing too fancy. All the
[27:07] equipment sets inside and we'll get to a
picture of that.
[27:11] The inside of the building kind of see
where the tankage is going to set in
[27:15] there.
Uh two tanks installed. Each of those
[27:20] are 5,000 gallons. We use uh alum, which
is aluminum sulfate material. And what
[27:26] that's used for is it's a um a coagulant
in the water that will cause particles
[27:33] to stick together and get heavier. So
they drop out of out of the the waist
[27:37] stream. But it also has the effect of of
taking soluble phosphor or insoluble
[27:44] phosphorus and turning it into a form of
soluble phosphorus that can settle. So
[27:49] that's how we achieve a lot of the the
phosphorus removal that we do through
[27:53] the plant.
Do you think it's going to increase then
[27:58] the percent from 90 up?
>> No, it'll probably ride right about the
[28:03] same. That's that's generally where we
run in that range year in and year out.
[28:07] Phosphorus is not terribly hard to
remove. You know, again, we can add
[28:13] alum, which is an expensive product, but
it also is the the best product for the
[28:18] job. So that's why almost every plant
has some form of chemistry that they add
[28:24] to get at phosphorus at the end of the
day because otherwise biologically it's
[28:29] a little bit harder to break down. In
the future, at some point, somebody will
[28:34] be standing here as as things go
forward,
[28:40] nutrient removal will become a bigger
and bigger deal as as far as regulatory
[28:45] goes because we're now really starting
to see the effect that it can have on
[28:49] large bodies of water that that these
waterheds drain into. And so they will
[28:55] they will require treatment of other
things like nitrates, different
[29:00] different nutrients, but nitrogen is is
a good example. And so there are
[29:06] biological ways to do it. In this
project, we actually set the design up.
[29:12] So if 10 years from now, EPA were to
say, "Okay, you've got to meet a lower
[29:16] standard." We've already designed the
tankage that we're building around being
[29:21] able to just take the next step with it
and and get into operation instead of
[29:25] having to reinvent the wheel and build
new tankage, things like that. So, we
[29:30] did get out in front of that. Timeline
wise, might be two years, might be 10
[29:35] years, might be 20 years, we don't know.
But my my personal feeling on it is a
[29:40] decade or so. You'll start hearing a
little bit of rumbling about it. So
[29:45] hopefully we've got things set up where
it'll be a pretty much just a shoehorn
[29:50] in there the equipment that we need. It
won't be ridiculously expensive or
[29:55] anything like that if we played our
cards right here. So
[30:01] uh it's the outside of the chemical
building getting the brick wrap on it so
[30:05] it matches [clears throat] everything
else that we got out there already.
[30:11] Uh this is a thickening tank. Um the the
current tank that we have was repurposed
[30:18] from a 1940s tank and that was
repurposed in the mid80s.
[30:24] The repurposed part is doing good. The
shell is falling apart around it. So it
[30:28] was in failure mode. So we're we're
replacing that here with this tankage.
[30:34] Another look as the walls go up on that
thickening tank.
[30:40] That's total outer shell is poured
there. Uh doesn't have the railing on it
[30:45] yet. That's all safety and concrete
forming that you see there.
[30:51] Little look at the inside of it.
[30:56] Uh the rebar in the outer ring of the uh
overflow for the tanks called a
[31:01] launderer. That's what we're getting
those guys were getting ready to pour.
[31:05] Then
>> how deep is that? 20 30 feet.
[31:08] » No. No, it's actually not. I think that
is 12 ft deep. Yeah. Yep.
[31:16] Uh finished concrete poured there. It
does not have the the collecting
[31:20] equipment. There's a a u a geared drive
that's in there to to collect the
[31:26] solids. Pull it towards the center and
that's where you pull the solids out of
[31:29] the tank at as they settle.
[31:33] Uh this is the hole that's open for the
new aation tanks. That's about They're
[31:39] probably down there about 16 or 17 ft
there.
[31:44] See the rebar getting laid in for what's
called the mud mat, which is basically a
[31:49] concrete foundation that sets underneath
the tank to spread the weight of it out.
[31:55] Walls going up on that tank.
[32:00] Another shot as they move on down
through. And there's actually two tanks
[32:03] there being poured. So, what we're what
we're looking at there is a is the uh
[32:09] outer wall to the right hand side there.
There's no forming there, just rebar,
[32:13] but that's where the center divider is
between the two tanks.
[32:18] A lot of rebar in these things. Takes
forever to build them for sure. We're
[32:23] still pouring concrete. They were
pouring concrete on them today. So, it's
[32:27] this these photos were taken
very early fall, I believe.
[32:35] just doing her one big bucket at a time.
That's concrete going in. And then you
[32:40] can kind of see they they've got the the
exposed walls of the tank finished
[32:45] there. There's still decking as you can
see all that bent over rebar. That's all
[32:50] decking that's being poured. That's what
they were working on today.
[32:56] I guess that's it.
If anybody's got any questions.
[33:03] All right, I'll wrap it up then. Thank
you.
[33:06] » Thank you.
[33:12] » Agenda item number eight. Mark, if you
want to give the correct wording, I
[33:16] appreciate it for the executive session.
>> Sure. So, somebody
[33:20] » somebody will need to make a motion um
to go into executive session pursuant to
[33:26] RC 121.22 22 G2 to consider the purchase
of property for public purposes, the
[33:34] sale of property at competitive bidding
or the sale or other dis disposition of
[33:39] unneeded, obsolete or unfit for use
property in accordance with section
[33:44] 505.10 of the revised code. If premature
disclosure of information would give an
[33:49] unfair, competitive or bargaining
advantage to a person whose personal
[33:53] priv private interest is adverse to the
general public interest.
[33:58] Somebody can just say so moved.
>> So moved
[34:01] » if you agree.
>> I think that was Steve, but I don't know
[34:05] who Steve was.
>> I'll second.
[34:09] » Steve,
>> yes.
[34:11] » Rick,
>> yes.
[34:12] » Jim,
>> yes.
[34:13] » Eric,
>> yes. John,
[34:14] » yes.
[34:18] At this point, go. Is there anybody?
>> Well, I I think you missed going around
[34:25] the room. It's okay
>> cuz we're in executive session now.
[34:28] » Okay. [clears throat]
[34:31] » Byebye.
>> I'm going [laughter] to take the stump
[34:34] out.
>> Hey, there's a burn ban. Look at
[34:39] Facebook if you want to know what that's