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730, and the morning, I will call this meeting to order a peace or meeting the pledge of allegiance.

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We are here to take care of some really serious, fled related business.

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Yeah, I think what we'll do is we've asked Aaron Schmitt, the Assistant City Engineer,

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just to kind of give an overview.

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And then we can kind of keep it pretty informal with console questions, more people, the audience

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have questions, and then we have our kind of entire team here so we can get out anything

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that you're curious about, so with that, Erin.

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Good morning, Erin.

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It's also.

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So we put together some quick presentation here.

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I like the current starting off here with a on photograph just kind of a area where things where we're going to photograph

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taking a month to go while we're doing some things out here and the other photograph was from yesterday.

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So why is this a title? This isn't a subtitle.

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I don't know why that's going, but hopefully that doesn't make everybody too.

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You might just run it.

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Thank you for trying subtitles.

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All right, there we go.

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So June 24, 2024, which is yesterday, you can see the river and the basin is very full.

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The road going into Riverside Park is pretty much non-existent at this point, so things

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are definitely filling up as we prepare for a projected crest on Thursday, which is currently

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projected at right at the hundred year flood elevation. So things are going to be very full for

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the next several days and we're we have a good plan in place and it's really about executing

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that plan at this point and reacting as needed but we think we have a good plan and we just wanted to

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kind of go through that here this morning just kind of highlight some of the things that we're

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working on here the past few days and then what we have to do before that crest happens.

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So this is the current forecast as of last night, as 345 p.m.

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Noah hasn't updated their forecast yet this morning from what I saw.

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But Todd mentioned that he looked at the USGS and we're currently at 32.39,

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which is basically right on the forecasted line.

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So we're trending basically right on the purple at this point.

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As I mentioned, historic crest, so a 35.07 was the historic 1965 flood.

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The 34.84 is a hundred-year flood elevation, so currently they're projected at a 34.80, so basically right on that hundred-year flood.

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Second biggest crest was in 1993, which I'm sure many of you remember, and that was at a 33.52.

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So we're definitely looking to be north of that 93 flood somewhere between there and that, and the 65 flood hopefully is where we're going to be ending up this week.

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So items that were completed, Brent had Kyle and the flood response team, which consists

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of Brent obviously, Paul and Eric from Public Services, Tim and Cali Cali and myself.

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Sorry for trying to blank on that Cali, but we've been working pretty hard here for about

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week. We got assembled and we've been checking in on a daily basis sometimes many more

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times than that. And some of the near-term things that had been done recently, I've

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seen the park as closed, temporary levee. So Paul had completed some of that work with

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public services staff. He's also utilized a local contractor, William Mueller and Suns,

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they've done some work for us.

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Today, we had a local detour in place

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along Forestry and Jordanson, just to kind of redirect

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into this area of town.

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And then we've set up the bigger detour

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as of this morning, so that will take people.

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We'll go down for a street to Johnathan Carver Parkway. Basically, just totally avoiding the downtown area at this point. Just due to the flooding, that isn't anticipated in those streets that we know of.

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So near-term plans, a lot of things are going to be coming together today. I have two days noted, so it's going to be a full day here today. The levy trail is closed right now. Safety science has set that up this morning early.

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so you'll see signage noting that the trail is closed completely. We are going to be doing a

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hard closure of Main Street West. Just west of downtown here. We're expecting that roads over

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top probably midday today. So that's where that major detour will be important because you will not

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be able to get out of town going that way or coming to town. So that will redirect people in that area.

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Can we talk about that for a second?

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So, is that in an area where there are houses adjacent to where we're anticipating flooding?

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Where my head is at is access to driveways and access to those individual houses?

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There are a little bit, so I think they'll be fine, but just getting in and out of there.

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I don't believe that there's a direct driveway that's in that spot.

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It's not kind of off to the side, Paul.

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If you have anything, add in that.

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It'll be hard barricades, so they'll be tight through barricades across the whole road.

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It'll be tight three.

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It goes like...

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The yellow or the white and orange with the three large aluminum panels.

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It'll be like three on each side of the road.

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So basically it'll be barriers with the water and then barriers.

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So, you'll leave there after, if residents are on that side, they'll come in from John and

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Carver Parkway, they're on this side, they'll come in from downtown to get to their houses.

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It will be delicate because it comes up, I mean, I would say the whole south lane could be underwater.

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So, you know, we would certainly don't want people driving there if they don't need to.

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That's why we're closing it.

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But I just point really into the hands of each property owner, should they decide to evacuate themselves.

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Sheriff's office has been pretty strong in a recommendation not to drive through standing water.

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So I would say like, driveways will be accessible based on what we know now, but we don't have the resources to monitor that.

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And so we're asking property owners and residents that live in that area to make a call at least at this point.

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Okay, and then communicating that, are we, have we done anything more personal than social media?

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We're just thinking this, I wonder if we don't need to, like, not do or not, but drop off something at the resident homes that are impacted and then maybe something on the doors of the apartment building there.

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not too worried about the bluffs because I got another entry.

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Well, I think anything that would be west of Carver Bluffs Parkway, we're not concerned

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with that area.

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It would be closer to the downtown, is that correct?

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Yeah, so we'll have a type 3, barricade, just east of the Carver Bluffs Parkway intersection

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in saying that, you know, road closed, no access to downtown.

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Okay. So I think this is local access only.

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Okay. So it'll be, you'll be able to go down to the Carver Bloss Parkway.

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And then there's going to basically be a type 3 like right in the Lansing.

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You can't go over here.

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Okay. Well, we'll come up with some type of fire that we couldn't.

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Okay. Let's go say, I know we're getting stretched then.

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So this is probably a lower priority request.

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but between the edge of downtown and kind of a bus parkway there's no more than 20 homes probably it doesn't

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home so that might be nice if we can just make sure that we're okay next item this is really the

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major item for today as I see it yesterday we made a decision that we want to increase the height of

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in a couple areas that are currently a little bit lower than others, so the main

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levee along the river is generally high enough as we see it right now. The old

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railroad grade, basically from Riverside Park up to Deepo Park, that is a little

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bit lower than the rest of the main levee, so we feel it's really in the best

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interested for safety right now to provide a little extra reward in that area.

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So what, what we've decided at this point.

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We'd like to obtain at least two feet of free board above the hundred year flood elevation, which is an elevation of 725.5.

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That stretch of the railroad grade is not neat that right now.

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It's anywhere from half foot to a foot lower than that.

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So, all of services has Mueller and Sons on board today to start at 9 o'clock to add that additional fill to give us that free board on that side of the levee system.

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So then that the entire river levee will have that two feet of free board established.

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And then along the spring creek levee, there are some areas that don't meet that right now as well.

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Specifically, at both the main and third street bridge crossings, so we're going to make sure those are elevated to that freeboard height.

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And then one piece of the levee adjacent to Jeremy guest stocks house, which is from third street to main street.

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His, his burrow in that area is a little bit low too, so we already started adding fill on that yesterday afternoon.

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So we're going to make sure basically that the whole system is going to be at that two-foot

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of freeboard elevation by the end of the day today.

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That's really the primary goal and objective for today just to make sure we have that factor

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of safety built in to the lobby system.

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That's where that didn't change.

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monitoring the levee system. So Carver Fire and Public Services team, we kind of talked about how frequently we're going to monitor. I thought I'd change that.

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Cali and I talked this morning and we're going to monitor every four hours.

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We're going to do a rotation between that team there. So they're going to be trained.

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Todd and I are going to take a walk this morning and kind of go through everything.

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I like some of the big areas that we see are important to really keep an eye on, so then they'll have that information to kind of add to their overall inspection plan over the next several days.

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So we're going to get that going today.

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You kind of have a nice checklist for what we need to be looking for specifically as we walk the levees system.

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When does that start?

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I'll defer to the rest of the team on that.

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Our plan is to start it tomorrow.

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Public services is going to do the day.

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Time and then fire department is going to take the overnight and

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Part of the weekends.

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Part of this weekend.

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We're hoping.

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It is at a not as zip through, but I go through.

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Check all your stations.

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It's going to be an hour to two hours per hour.

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So, we're going to have some key areas that we're going to have them inspect along with.

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We're going to put together a checklist with both of them to help and public services.

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And we're going to compile a checklist.

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And we're meeting with the fire department tonight at 7 p.m.

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to go through it.

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And then we'll probably be some 101 training for anybody that signs up for shifts.

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And then lastly, we, Kelly's been working on the evacuation plan, I know that's not

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a term that people like to hear, but it's something that's important and necessary,

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so he's working on finalizing what that looks like, what the notification area would

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be, so he's putting that together, I know him and public services have started to talk

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through that. You know, what are the logistics of that? So, I don't know. Cali, if there's

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anything you want to add to that, but that's something that we need to have in place by the end

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of the day so we can make decisions as needed going forward. Again, what we've revealing the plan

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tonight. Again, this is only precautionary with her. There's no risk that we feel at this time,

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but we will have a plan in place, so if something does happen, everybody will know what needs

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to happen to make the evacuation.

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Is there a threshold from the road?

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We don't believe the levees are going to be

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at a sustainable level.

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So it's only if we see a potential breach, such as dirty

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water or something like that coming through the levee,

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that we would institute any evacuation plan.

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So.

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And that would just say what I heard you say,

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just because I think it's important.

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The evacuation plan is scary.

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That's terrifying to hear that.

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But it's part of our planning.

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It's so that we can be ready for worst case scenario, which we're not anticipating, we're certainly hoping we won't need to draw from those plans, but we'll have it in place.

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Correct.

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Okay, any questions on today's Board of Apparations?

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Can we start? Sorry, thank you guys.

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The number two, the temporary levy, so it looks like the trail will be closed from depot park all the way through to ash street.

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Is that correct?

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Yeah, so on the western end, I'll call it. We have a trail close barricade just west of the bridge.

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So that'll be kind of the hard stop.

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everybody west of the bridge won't be able to get across the bridge the pedestrian bridge I should say

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okay and then there's a closure down at Broadway for the trail stuff comes up by the Broadway parking lot

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and then up at Deepo Park this way okay is the filming brought in from the section of Broadway and

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Riverside Park the fill is gonna be brought in from Deepo Park so the fill will be between Deepo Park and

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or a Riverside Park.

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I anticipate it's going to be, we think it's hard to keep people off the temporary levee.

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I think it's going to be really hard to keep people, gochers, and folks were just interested

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off of the levee levee between Riverside Park and Broadway.

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Is there any way that we would keep that open or is kind of the public safety in the threat

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that's so much so that we just really don't want to go out there.

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I really don't think it's a good idea for anyone to be walking on the levee once it's

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so high like this because if someone would fall and go into the river it would be an extremely

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unfortunate situation. So we really want to encourage everybody just please stay off the levee.

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Okay. We're doing our inspections and we feel it's a safest for everybody to just kind of stay away

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at this point. Okay, so that is our messaging starting at 9 o'clock this morning. Please stay off the

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levy. I guess

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I was just going to, so the basic summary is that the vast majority of the

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levy is above the current predicted and there's just a few spots where we're going to augment

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with the temporary levy and after that's done, the entire distance would be above our current

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rejected, pressed right. That's correct. Excellent. Okay. Good job, everybody.

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Oh, and then on the, do we have maybe bigger signs I was walking down by getting some copy this morning, we're on the trail closure. Maybe, you know, it was like the ace sign the smaller. Do we have maybe a more substantial sign we could put down there to deter.

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We could maybe class three. Yeah, we could see what we can do. We could try to get some larger signs or maybe we could supplement with some barrels or something like that.

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Okay, I would just add to it.

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We recognize our parties that keep people off the temporary level, we also recognize

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that folks, even if we have a barricade, some folks are going to look up there, we're

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not going to be calling the sheriff's office.

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We just feel like it's our obligation to like, a parent, a teller, a child to be safe,

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like small pets, small children, at this point with the way that river is moving, it will

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only take like a trip in the fall for there to be a local tragedy and so we're not going

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to be guarding it, we're not going to be chewing people off the top, but we think we're

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doing our due diligence.

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So you may be showing people off the top of temporary living.

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Off temporary living, yes, but if someone walked up on Broadway to the top, you know, we're not going to be, you know,

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controlling that, like, hall monitors.

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But we, we don't advise people to do that. We're not encouraging people to do that.

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But I think it would be a fool's errand to try to monitor that, you know, on a regular basis.

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You know, that's it. Thanks everybody. Okay. So the last slide we have put together is really what

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it order that I have two days going to look like. What I'm called high crest time frame. And

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hopefully it's a weight patiently scenario where we just have to all be patient and let the

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river crest and hopefully recede over the next several days. It looks like by the end of the weekend

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conditions will be a little bit kind of similar. It's what they are now from a height

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perspective. As long as we don't have any crazy rainstorms or anything happen between

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all and then, but really it's going to be a monitoring the levee situation.

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You know, every four hours waiting patiently. And like I said, the evacuation plan is really only if we see something that really doesn't look good when we're doing those inspections. So I'll have that in place.

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And I guess I just will continue to wait and see all things go off.

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So, is there any point in the system, the strong water frame system, or water group, overtake

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that, or possibly for a home to be low line areas?

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So, everything right now is operating with storm water lift stations, so that would be one

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thing.

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If we had a super heavy downpour, it could produce some localized flooding, you know, like in low

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points in the streets and that kind of stuff.

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So, public services has some additional pumps that they would have to deploy to those sites

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to assist and dry and down that water a little more quickly.

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But right now, all of our storm water lift stations are operating in.

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All right. Thank you.

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Welcome.

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Do you want to come up to the microphone and ask questions?

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great time to do that if we have any. I want to make sure that you guys

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minds are in ease and have any questions, Jill, that's a call on you.

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Come on up, come on up please if you don't want to waste a lot of enough.

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No, so these are weird videos taking and broadcasting this live and it's a struggle for the

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tens of tens of people right now. So I'm just curious. Can you tell me your name?

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Oh, my name's Andrew Radamaker, 117-20,

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made three.

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Thank you, I'm hearing a little bit out.

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My question is the high-christ time.

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So we're talking Wednesday and Sunday.

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What is that extension from Sunday being

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from the rain coming on Friday?

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Or are we setting crease because of the dam that broke in my cradle?

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So what we've heard from Carver County emergency management

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is the dam that broke in my cradle will have a very basically

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know impact on us this far downstream. They're saying like a fraction of an inch of an impact.

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I haven't seen the crest forecast go up or down based off of that. And it's also my understanding

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and if somebody from the team can know me and if I'm incorrect on this but it's my understanding

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that the forecast can somebody pull up the work again that we see that we're probably all checking

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quite regularly, right? That's based off of the rain that we have received. Not what is forecast

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So that could change a little bit. It's also my understanding that it's not so much

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necessarily the rain we get here unless it's exceptional. It's the rain upstream from the past.

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So I can't hold you on the Minnesota River Valley.

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Okay. Now when we put the New Sewer's water in, how much did they raise that road?

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I mean, being here for 30 years, I can't really want to find out.

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I'm basically my, I don't, you know, I'm just kind of wondering why I think we're East.

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I don't, I don't believe we have the records on that.

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No, so the information we're reviewing for elevations, that's what I, it looks like it'll over top today,

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but we like midday, so I don't know how much they raise their lower the road,

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but we're using the construction plans when we did our review that,

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So it should be really accurate because back in the time they would go round us.

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You know the level of the shirt in your right there.

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I don't know.

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I'll do that.

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So I was just curious, like what I'm just trying to think of my head,

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what we are to expect.

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Okay.

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That's all.

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I'll just curious.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Okay.

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If you guys have any questions, after this, if you walk out,

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give us a call, and it's sitting all, let us know.

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Happy to answer any of your questions.

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This is a, can't think of a term that isn't a flooding,

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unintentional pond.

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This is a fast movie situation.

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This is a fluid situation, and it just changes a lot.

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We had a meeting on Monday, last Monday night,

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and things changed by Tuesday morning.

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So this is what we know right now, and we're pretty sure.

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And I think we have a little bit more fuller picture of what this is going to look like, but things could absolutely change.

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A couple more things.

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I just wanted to, I know some folks might not know him, but Todd Hubmer,

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what both did to make was going to lead in our certified levee project,

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is today to just kind of do a walk through and look at how this project might impact our plans.

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And specifications for the certified levy project. I think you want to share things that you might be looking for today.

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I think one of the questions I think came up yesterday was the rapid end.

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The situation. I want to let you know that the DNR and the Army Corps of Engineers been working on how far that if that was to completely fail.

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Meaning the damn wash. How far that impact would happen and we're on the notification list.

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But based on our reviews yesterday looking and chatting with them, it would be very minimal at Carver.

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It's on the blue or the river, it's not on the Minnesota river, so it has not as big of a watershed, not as big a volume of water behind it.

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Also the area behind that dam is full of silt, so there's not a huge volume of water, there's a big volume of dirt,

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which might moving that material would be an immediate impact to the folks downstream.

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But we wouldn't expect that there'd be a significant impact this far downstream from that dam break.

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So I think we can be at ease and if that situation changes, we will be notified.

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I think the other two thing is just be patient and again I can't reiterate

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stay away from the water. We have the peak of this flood on Thursday we're

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going to have 88,000 cubic feet per second of water traveling by the city of

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Carver and that is a lot of water and it's moving very quickly. There's a lot

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of things hidden in the water that you can't see, there's trees, there's debris

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that you can get caught on so stay away from the water, stay back, stay safe.

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It is a force of nature and I understand that they're ought to look at it but do it from a safe distance.

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It's all I have.

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Thanks Tom.

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And then one last thing I just wanted to recognize Paul and Eric and their teams and Kelly and Tim and the fire department along with everybody at City Hall.

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You're seeing or I feel like I'm a part of something that you don't usually see.

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It's like, or people don't usually see I see it every day, but it's like the best of who we are.

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They're treating it more than a job.

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It's an obligation to help the community.

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And so there's a lot of helping hands that are outside of this room that are doing that same thing.

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And so, just want to let you know that you're in good hands.

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And if there's anything that you need or folks from the community need, we are on our

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website, email call, what have you over here to get through this together?

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I'm standing here to reiterate that there are a lot of folks who are working, Brenda,

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Lynn, Tim, all Eric, Officer Trimbo, I appreciate all of your hard work and I know nobody's

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sleeping.

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These days, and I recognize that and I appreciate everybody's hard work, Erin Todd, thank you all.

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I have a few more questions, so I'm anticipating downtown cover to probably look pretty similar

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next week as far as the levees being in place, how long do we anticipate having the extra

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fill in place?

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Right now, I've received the river forecast, let me go out one week, get a future, but based

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on the projection line, I would say that we should probably anticipate all that stuff being in place

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at least through the end of next week at a minimum. So it'll be up through the fourth

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of July and getting all that. So, okay, great. And then we will keep an eye on the river

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forecast and if heaven forbid, there's another crest, will you? Yeah, we have to redo

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and everything, yeah.

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OK.

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My next question is about money and how we're going to pay for this.

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OK, so we will use our fund balances and varying funds.

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All in as mentioned, setting up a separate project code.

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So time, materials, other resources,

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are going to be coded or keeping our fingers crossed

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that the state and female come through for reimbursement.

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Um, so that right now we're just in the mode of like tracking and we have the resources to up front that from a cash perspective.

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Um, just copy and back to that levy district emphasis that I was checking something maybe why you talked about it, but we are going back to the main street in third street temporary levy's today.

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This can you go into that just in a little bit part detail.

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Yeah, so we met yesterday and that's when we made the decision that we wanted to have a consistent two-foot free-board elevation above the hundred-year flood just for safety purposes, so that's why we have to go back to me and there's...

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There was some areas that were a little bit low, so we wanted to make sure it's nice and consistent all the way.

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And then third street was just started yesterday, so we just have to kind of finish that one off here today as well.

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And we anticipate, I mean, all that work done by the end of the day today.

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Yep. Okay.

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We got Hall of Fame shovel.

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We got Hall of Fame shovel.

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So we all had tired of exhausted.

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We had Paul just demonstrated that.

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I was downtown last Thursday for a little bit of when they were constructing the mainstream bridge, and it is, it is like a well-quarie of raft that into with a bunch of trucks coming in and stay away from it, but cool to see the level of synchronization that it takes and I have no doubt that it's going to be a regular dumb truck for a later today.

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So, thank you. We're doing that, even though you all let me in the skits here.

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Okay, any other questions come from?

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So, post flood events, do we need to have any special engineering inspections of the bridges as a result of this?

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No, you would take that one.

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He's a flood expert.

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Yeah, what we'll do is we'll watch as waters receded before we open the roads.

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And if there's some significant damage, we'll take more inspection of it.

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I don't anticipate there.

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This is, those two bridges, one is of already

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to come out anyway, so that will be replaced.

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So I'm not too concerned about that.

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The other one is modern construction,

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so I don't anticipate there'd be in any major issues

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with that one.

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We agree with that.

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No.

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That's it.

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Only because I came up and certainly the absolute most

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on my list of priorities.

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But the third, three bridge, we're going to start seeing

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some construction on it early July.

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I assume that that's pushed back.

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do we have any concept of as a pushback on month, as a pushback?

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Yeah, so the last schedule I had from Hensh's was that they wanted to start July 1st,

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that obviously is not anywhere in the realm of possibilities, so I just kept them informed

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and just told me, you know, obviously this is something we can't control, so we're just going

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to have to let that water get down and really just see what things look like down there and

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I'll report back when I know more, but it's going to be, I would say probably several weeks before

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We're really getting going out there because there's a threshold. They're not going to worry about work. If the water. No, it's just

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It's just two. It'll be too wet and it's going to make a mess. So they could maybe do some of the

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removals on top, you know, like the street work portion of it. Sure. So that might be where they would start as things start to

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figure out a schedule here after we get through this, so.

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Okay, super.

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Community members, last call for questions?

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Did this help?

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Write your minds at ease a little bit.

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So, you know, I was talking to Julie for the meeting.

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This makes me nervous too.

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That said, I'm confident that we have a plan in place.

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I'm confident that the levee has served it.

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Our community well since 1965.

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We're adding a little bit more to it to give it a little bit more, give us a little bit more height and ability to protect the downtown area and I think we'll be just fine and we've got plans that that's not the case too.

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So let us know if you guys have any questions that pop up tell your neighbors, tell your friends.

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We're here to help enhance your questions. This is an uncertain time and it's certainly heartbreaking.

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All right. Next we need a motion. I will make a motion to adopt resolution 1, 2, 3,

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dash 24. A resolution extending a period of mayor declared emergency

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of the city of Carverman, a set of motion by Mayor Johnson, a second by council member

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Perchman. Any further discussion? No. All those in favor say aye.

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Aye. Opposed same sign? All right. Motion passes.

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Thank you. Yes? All right. Then I would entertain a motion to adjourn.

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I move to adjourn.

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I've got a much of a consummary lunch.

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I'm going to second by consummary person.

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All those of you who say aye.

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Opposed.

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Today I'm fine.

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Motion passes.

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All right.

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Thanks, everyone.

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Thank you, guys.