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Hi, Jenna.
>> Hi. Look at I was just noticing Brandy

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and Mike match.

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[laughter]
>> Same colors.

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» Brown, [laughter]
>> right?

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» Are we waiting?
I think you might be virtual, but be

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here for the right
meeting.

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» Oh, okay. Perfect.
>> Just ask for a link for the pre meeting.

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» Okay. And I do need to catch up with you
text.

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All righty. Let's go ahead and get
started with first item on here are

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federal earmarks. Um I'm going to pass
that to Janine. Looks like we have a

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couple staff members here to talk about
the projects that we're looking at. So

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go ahead, Janine.
>> Thank you, mayor. So, um, we have been

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working to identify projects that we,
uh, have in the community or have

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already had in our capital plan that
would be eligible for federal funding

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through earmarks. As you know, um, here
at Hegelman's office is, uh, accepting

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again this year the earmark
applications. As you are aware, the city

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has been successful in past years
securing. Um, staff have put together a

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list for you. Um, Pete is going to
present that list and the information in

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your memo. So with that,
>> awesome.

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» Welcome to the podium.

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» Good evening, members of council.
Pleasure to be with you again.

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» Yes, this is our presentation of
potential earmark request. The formal

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name is congressionally directed
spending. These are things that uh every

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member of the House of Representatives
is allowed to request. Every member is

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allowed to request up to 15 different
specific requests that get attached to

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various different federal endeavors that
go into the budget. Presumably, this

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would be for the next upcoming fiscal
year budget for the count for the uh for

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the federal government. That would be
something that theoretically they would

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be passing around time passing by
September 30th of this year. So

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there are many many rules around the
kinds of things you can request. there

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many different subprograms and it's
actually rather complicated as far as

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matching a potential request to a
potential source of funding

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but but we have done a lot of work on
in-house amongst ourselves and also with

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our consultants to see strategies to try
to figure out an appropriate set of

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requests that are both timely for what
we try to get done high priorities for

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us that to accomplish and also matching
with a with a reasonable source of

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funding
Having gone through all that, we've

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we've come up with three different
requests that we think would be a good

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match for for potential for for the
potential needs of the city. We would so

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three requests that we have, one is a
uh an antenna and radio communication

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enhancements for the police department.
This is a $1.6 million request. It's a

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way to to add some additional encryption
to the police department's rating

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system. It would buy actual radios. It
would also install an antenna at or near

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the event center itself.
You would hopefully get this and uh the

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program we going through is called the
Edward Burn grant program. That's nice

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because it has no match requirements. If
if we were to get the if we were to get

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the uh award, we'd have to provide a
local match. We've also asked for some

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funding for bedline replacement. We know
a few places in the city where there may

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or or are certain very old water lines
which may still have a certain amount of

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lead in them and we certainly been
monitoring them for for years and years

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and years. This I mean get removing
removing lead from from the system has

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been a process of literally generations
of public services directors who've been

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gradually removing all those really old
lines. But there are still some left in

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there. And so this would be a request
that would allow us to remove some of

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the last of those and to make sure our
system is 100% free.

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That's about a $3 million request that
we would be asking for there. And then a

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third one would be Robertson Road.
Robertson Road, as you may be aware, has

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had a lot of congestion issues and
certainly this came up a lot when we

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were selling the truck lane property and
we've got a lot of people feedback at

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that time. Since then, we've done
studies and we've got a got a a vision

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for how we might go about making the
traffic at Marson Road a little bit

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better, widening it a little bit, adding
some trails to get some people off the

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roads, adding some left turn lanes. The
idea being there that we could uh try to

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get um try to try to clean up that
intersection just a little bit and we do

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believe that we could apply for some
highway funds there. Uh that one, like

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the water lines project, this one also
would have a 20% match. So someone

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requests 1.5 million for a $ 1.9 million
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So
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» So we would request 1.5
for for 1.9 the total would be 1.9. So

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we would have to we would have to
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to get the entire project done as as we
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uh in regards to that question certainly
when you make these requests, you never

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know exactly what's going to happen.
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you can make the request for that dollar
amount it might change where as it goes

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through the congressional budgeting
process which of course is extremely

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complicated and hard to predict.
It it it can it is entirely possible for

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for if the congresswoman were to support
our request which of course is the first

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question
then it has to get through various

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approvals at different committees and so
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of course they can deny the request
which is always their right. They can

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also change the dollar amount which is
not typical for it's it's one way in

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which this is different from a normal
grant request. If we were to receive

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this as as a regular grant,
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we know exactly what we're asking for,
and chances are we'll get either that or

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nothing at all. In this case, it's
entirely possible to say, "Well, we'll

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give you half as much as what you're
asked for. Do what you can." And in

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which case, that's what we would do. Get
as much of the project on with the word.

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» Go ahead. So
this obviously wouldn't fund um that

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amount of money wouldn't fund very much
on that on that project in particular a

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roundabout
um with kind of a deal. The way I looked

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at it um that alone be several million
I'm guessing. Uh but uh um so is that

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not included
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some of lower Robertson road?
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included in the project. Be certain we
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study design the theoretical design we
would implement there. Certainly, it

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would go for much further than just this
little segment. And and I believe that

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original cost estimates were something
in the order of $8 million to do the

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entire length of what we would want to
do on Robertson River if funding were no

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object. Um so, so you're right. No, this
is just this is just that area closer to

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the CY Avenue. It's it's a bit of the
widening of the intersection and some

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other work in that area. It um and
certainly we had

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It's understanding that we could not
reasonably expect to get an award of

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that size of $800. It just that's that's
not in the that's not in the cards. So

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So we we thought we would ask for
something that's more limited which

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would could still provide some benefit

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questions for people.
You said the three we already talked

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about three projects already, right?
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replacement of the water lines,
potential for lead contamination, the

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Robertson Road, and then an antenna for
the police department and the radio. And

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so, so yes, I guess the question that I
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would be first of all, if that list is
acceptable, and then if so, what the

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prioritization among those three
projects would be because that is

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something that the congresswoman would
would ask us. what if if I only did one

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which would you choose and that is that
is something we will need to communicate

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that
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the from the 30,000 foot view the lead
service drinking water seems fairly

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important um as public safety
communication but I also know I know I'm

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not kind of I'm not very trying to
single any of them out the Robertson

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roads is important I know the vice mayor
has talked often about that in his ward

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Um, but if I had to look at something
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suspected lead service would be probably
one of our number one priorities, but

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like to offer that, open that up to the
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about priority.
>> What was yours again?

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» Uh, the suspected lead service drinking
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So, I think that's been a problem around
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» Certainly, it's been it's been a problem
nationally actually.

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» Absolutely.
>> Yes. No. Um, and it's been something

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that's that the EPA and
a long time.

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» Decades.
>> Yeah. Yeah.

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» Michael, sorry, Vice Mayor. I'll get
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» My thoughts are the lead in the water
pipes. I'm pretty sure EPA is going to

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start going to come out with grants for
us to be able to do that if we can't get

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this. I think the antenna would be a
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important, but
they're all three. Great.

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» They are.
>> Vice Mayor,

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» thank you, Mayor. Uh, Pete, I was hoping
you could in regards to the antennas and

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the radios. In the memo, it says that it
will allow us to comply with the state

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of Wyoming's updated mutual aid
encryption protocol.

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Could you provide a little bit more
context and like are we currently not in

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compliance with the mutual aid
encryption protocol and

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under what sort of timeline are we bound
to? If not, what sort of timeline are we

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bound to get into compliance? A little
more context in that regard if you could

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please.
>> Thank you, Mr. Um, I can provide at

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least a little bit more context. Um,
certainly our radios are currently

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encrypted and they do allow for cross
communication with other agencies. Um,

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however, there are these uh call them
back channels. That's not the proper

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channel where where the radios can be
turned to another channel. And for some

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of those channels, they are not
naturally encrypted. So the state is now

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upgrading its requested level of
encryption to include both the front and

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the back of the house if you want to
think of it that way. So So right now

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many of our radios or should say some of
our radios are already compliant with

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that higher standard, that new standard,
but not all of them. So, so the purchase

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of the radios would allow us to all the
police department's radios was for also

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sworn staff but also the other all the
other police department officials who

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have to carry radios including CSOS and
you know patrol officers and other

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people have to have radio. Anyway, it
allow us to replace those older radios

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with zero kind
for both the front half and the back

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half encryption and and move to the
higher level of encryption which is also

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a two key encryption rather than a one
key encryption. Please don't ask me what

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the difference is. [laughter]

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» Yeah, go ahead.
>> Thank you, Pete. Uh so for followup, I

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think I got the answer uh in the
additional information you provided, but

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these radios are radios that we will
need to purchase at some point in the

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future. They're replacing existing
radios. They're not in addition above

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and beyond radios we're currently using.
We're not adding to our kind of

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inventory of assets. These are radios
that need replaced at some point in

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time. And when they do need replaced,
they will need to have this encryption

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protocol. Mr. Mayor, Mr. Vice Mayor, um
that is my understanding. Yes, that um

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that certainly you had at one point
requested a timeline. I don't know if

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the state has given us a deadline thing.
Thou shalt have your radios ready at

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this time.
However, I believe chief police is

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standing behind me. [laughter] No
pressure. He might have more information

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than I do on this subject.

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» Thank you. Great job.
>> Thanks. Thank you, [laughter] Mayor

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Counselor. Um so I'd really just speak
about the antenna itself. We do have

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some dead spots in Casper and if some of
you remember, we've had some critical

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incidents. They've been in the past, but
some of our older buildings are concrete

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and these portables that we have now do
not um most buildings that are older do

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not require that. Um
>> I want to make sure I got my language

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right. So it's bilateral communication.
Um, so when we had the incident at the

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hospital with the active shooter at the
hospital some years ago, we were unable

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to communicate in the hospital because
the hospital did not

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» that bad bilateral antenna is what it's
called. [clears throat]

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We have some dead spots across the front
of the Casper Mountain. This new

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antenna, if we got it, would help clear
up some of those dead spots. Um, as well

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as you also remember, we had the hostage
situation down on North Popppler

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in the uh old state building.
name names but it was state agency where

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unsecure building an attorney was taken
hostage turned into a whole thing. We

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had a problem with their interoper
interoperable communication with our

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portables because of the dead space down
there. So this antenna at that proposed

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site when we had a um some radio
engineers come out and do a site survey.

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That would be the best place to have it.
Currently what we're operating on is a u

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tower that we call the the tall grass
tower. It's in Converse County. So, a

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lot of our traffic, depending on where
we're at, has to hit that tower down in

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Converse County and then come back. It's
not really a repeater anymore, but it

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goes through that wild link system and
then comes back. And so, this would help

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with take some of the burden off that
tower. And also, some of our traffic

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here up on the west side of town hits
the radio tower clear out at Alcoa. So,

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this would help take some of that um
traffic off those two towers and put it

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here and help increase our
communication. the portables themselves

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when uh the state went to Wildlink and
ponyied up some of that stuff. We're

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still in good standing on those
portables, but as you know, we being one

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of the larger agencies in the state,
sometimes we can call to go other

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places. These portables will be able to
flip a switch through dispatch, be able

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to communicate seamlessly with those
other agencies even though they're not

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necessarily programmed. Their channels
aren't programmed in our portals. That

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makes sense. So, that's what Wild's
trying to get to.

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» Any other questions? Yeah, go ahead.
>> Um, thank you for that, Chief. And I

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my understanding when I've brought up uh
the lead issue at regional water after

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last year's I think it was wham
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um and brought back you know some
concerns from that um via DEEQ

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in a presentation
um It's pretty well.

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I think they're tracking at least in
Casper where where the problems are and

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I think they're down to less than 100
100 properties

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uh that they're still tracking uh if I
remember right. Uh but uh but anyway uh

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I you know listening to some of the leg
legislative stuff and some of the

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hearings recently on on different things
that sounds like the wild link um you

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know and trying to keep keep up with
technology.

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I I think that's probably
a quicker quicker need. Nothing against

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you know they're all good projects.
>> Yeah.

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» um I would just add a few things if I
could council. Um so with respect to the

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lead lines this came up during capital
budget review and your understanding is

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my understanding as well. Um this has
been being tracked for some time. couple

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years ago um during the Biden
administration, the EPA really up the

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ante and mandated uh jurisdictions that
were not inventorying their system for

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potential lead or other pipes that could
can um hold lead.

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They created a deadline for that to
occur. So, Casper Regional Water has

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that inventory has been chipping away at
this. What kind of brought this to my

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attention um and why I asked that maybe
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at which we address lead lines is that
Biden era mandate to inventory and then

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remediate uh is still out there. Now,
with the Trump administration taking

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office, there was some question whether
the Trump administration would roll back

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these regulations like they have for
things like um the toxic plastics and

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groundwater, mercury, etc. But the most
recent news I've seen is that the Trump

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administration is saying they're going
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remediate, but the grant program, to
your point, counselor, that would have

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come with this to help with remediation
remains in question. So, um I think your

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point is a good one. If the grant
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then sure, we would love to utilize that
funding and maybe make our other

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project, one of the other projects a top
priority. Um, what I will say though is

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with the knowledge that these locations
exist, I had concern that maybe we need

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to get out and remediate these sooner
versus later because we have a known

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liability in in the pipes and um, lead
is serious as we all know. So anyway,

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what I would maybe suggest hearing what
you've said, I think it's a good point.

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Um, if we could elicit some information
from the feds as to whether or not that

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grant program will be reinvigorated and
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then this could be depprioritized among
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maybe it it's a more urgent issue. So
anyway, just some perspective for you.

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certainly welcome to add to to that.
>> Don't feel pressured.

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» You don't have to. [laughter]
>> Don't feel bullied.

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» I think everybody has covered it very
well. Uh these are areas that we have

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been track tracking for a while. They're
not currently areas that we're concerned

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with the
quality as in life cycle of the pipe.

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not having frequent breaks or anything

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like that. So, this is really just a
lead service line or suspected lead

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service line issue that we we'd rather
get out ahead of than than wait for

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other opportunities if we can.
Just wrapping up, the concern is if the

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mandate to remediate remains and we
don't secure funding, will we find

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ourselves down the road in a situation
where oh, we have to have this

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remediated in a year and there is no
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So, thank you, Ethan.
>> Yeah, just a quick question. I'm just

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wondering, we're talking about
prioritization and I'm wondering it

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appears that these are coming from
different pots of federal money. So, is

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there really a need to I mean, are we
talking about in terms of which one we

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would advocate for more strongly or
because it looks like they're from

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different pots of money. So, if they'd
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Mr. Mayor, Councelor Bond, um the answer
to your question is that under the rules

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of the House of Representatives, every
representative of the House can can

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submit only 15 requests. I see. I see.
So, so inevitably you're not the only

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agency that might asking
>> and so she she may have to make some

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choices.
>> I see. Thank you for that clarification.

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» All right, sir.
>> Thank you, Mayor. I have a question,

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Pete. I know previously we've always
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the Senate not also have any
opportunities like this or

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» Mr. Mayor, Mr. President? Um, the Senate
can, but uh our senators have have

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chosen to opt out of the this process.

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submit any of these requests on their
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» So, it sounds like the two that I'm
hearing obviously are the communications

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for the police and and the lead. Um, I
guess I would offer or ask um what you

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guys kind of look at those two. I'm
sorry, Kyle, but it sounds like the

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» I was going to say if no one's going to
speak to it, I'm happy to advocate. Do

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you want to advocate for before we move?
>> Yeah, I mean since we haven't mentioned

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it, um you [clears throat] know, uh
councelor Sweeney, uh to your point,

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this is everything south of the bridge
to see why. Um I'm really thankful. I

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think it was when Andrew Beamer was our
public services director. I had asked

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for some help with restriping that area
of road and that did help tremendously.

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Um so I'm very very pleased with that
what that's done. But still the hill

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leading up from north uh from Robertson
Road Bridge 2C is only two lanes. And

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this most recent snow event that we had,
I was on my way to work or something. Um

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it is often the case vehicles, two wheel
drive vehicles get stuck on that hill.

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In this case, it was a bus kind of jack
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Nobody can get through. It turns into a
huge issue. And I'm sure there's dozens,

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maybe hundreds of people that are very
late to work those mornings. And it

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happens almost every significant snow
event. And so, you know, uh for people

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that live in that area of town, you
know, it's hard for me to say it should

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be prioritized above clean drinking
water and uh public safety critical

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communication equipment, but certainly
um I support this being on the list. And

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uh you know it's a $2 million project
that would eat up currently our streets

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funding you know annual budget is 3.7 so
that would eat up over half of our

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annual budget. So it's something that
would be very hard to do without some

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sort of federal assistance. Uh but I do
think it's it's a significant need in

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that area town. So just my two cents.
[clears throat]

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» So sounds like we we're seeing now that
you guys everybody heard from Kyle. I

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agree. No I want to give you that
opportunity my friend.

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» Appreciate it. Um [laughter]
uh but it sounds like the real

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priorities where we're looking at are
the lead um and the uh communications.

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Uh I guess what do we want to be I it's
going to be hard to put those two

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» um or is everybody anybody leaning
certain one? Mayor, I I think you

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proposed all three, correct? Yeah.
>> And then then you get kick back from

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Egamman's office and saying, "Okay, this
year I've got 45 in front of me. What's

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your priority?"
>> Is that how we want to do? Because I

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know you in the in the memo it said you
want to give us a priority now or am I

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wrong in that, Peter?
>> No, Mr. Mayor. You are correct. It would

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it would be helpful at this time to know
what your what your top priorities would

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be so that we could communicate that.
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Thanks, Mayor. I mean, if budget is not
a variable in this equation and it's

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just number of projects, we're asking
for twice as much for the lead water

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lines. And if we were to get that, you
know, coming up with 1.6 for the police

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department is probably easier than
coming up with three million for water

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lines.
>> Water lines. Yeah.

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» Um
although rape payers. Yeah. I mean, so

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that you know the ask is twice as much
for the other one. Um, which again will

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be borne by the rateayers in that case,
but if we can do them a solid, I think

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we owe it to them.
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» yeah, I I had the same line of thought
and ultimately I think the order that

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they're in in the memo is the order I
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» Yes,
>> if I had to prioritize them, I think

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they're all worthy of being on the list,
but uh if I had to prioritize, I would

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just say proceed as is. Yes,
>> I would second that.

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» Anybody against that? Awesome.
So, as the order it is in the memo.

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» Thanks so much, sir. Appreciate it.
>> Thanks. Thanks, Steph.

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» Appreciate it. Thanks for coming up,
Ethan.

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» All right. Agenda review. Anybody have
anything they'd like to talk about

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that's in the P or in the um agenda for
tonight? Anything? Questions,

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clarification?
>> Yeah, go ahead.

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» So, Mayor, um I I probably should have
asked to pull

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off the consent agenda as far as the
rate increase for the golf course. No, I

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can't
um

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authorizing

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the water utility rate adjustment
amendment that's on consent. Um,

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weren't we hearing tonight the the golf

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course?
>> Sounds like it's next

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» coming up sweetie.
>> Oh, it's not on.

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» It is tonight or is not tonight? [cough]
>> Uh, [clears throat] so actually when it

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comes to the recreation enterprises, you
all established a resolution of the

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council that our rates would be set
based on our cost recovery goals. And so

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we have not since 2018 when that
resolution was instituted uh passed

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specific resolutions for rate increases
to any of the enterprises except for the

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cemetery. That's the exception because
of specific statute related to

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cemeteries. Um so generally speaking we
have not brought a resolution for a

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formal approval. Once you all give
conceptuals we move forward with

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implementing those rates based on that
um 2018 resolution.

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me to hear any feedback or concerns that
you might still have.

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» So, I didn't vehemently oppose it and I
didn't give it a I didn't give a thumb

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either way or a finger either.
[laughter] So,

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» I didn't know that was an option.
[laughter]

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» Something new every day.
But um I I just uh but you know the

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majority voted and and it was all good.
But uh tonight I if if it was and I

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thought I had seen it but I got it mixed
up with with the um amendment. Um, so I

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I just think
with the winner we've had and lack of

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winner up on Hogadon, those losses are
going to be tremendous. Um, and u I just

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don't know if we want that much more
misery because I I do believe we're

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going to have to water a lot more this
summer um than previously. Hopefully

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[clears throat]
this storm does hit and dump in the

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snowies and Sierra Madre and that's
where the most of our north flat water

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comes from. So um that might help but so
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you [clears throat] know
majority rules so

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late to the dance.
>> Yes. So,

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thanks for [laughter]

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any other questions. Do you have
anything to add?

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» No, I I was going to mention going
through parks and recy board. That's the

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only
right.

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I think that's probably clear.
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» add a comment in response. We will
absolutely monitor course conditions um

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you know and and navigate the end of
season as best as possible. We do also

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offer um our package options of

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F season pass that starts July 1. Um so
look at altering that as well. I I think

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there are options available to us and we
would bring forward um some

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recommendations if we felt like there
needed to be a change. Um but we will

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absolutely be monitoring the watering uh
and the conditions of the course. Um but

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would also say that you know season
passes are the foundation of our revenue

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streams and I think historically pass
holders understand that. Um, and I think

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when I did the math, a passholder would
only need to golf 16 times to break even

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as compared to paying a daily rate. Um,
and so we still feel like our

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passholders are getting good value and
even in a dry summer, they would likely

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far exceed that 16 time break even
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» Thank you, Vice Mayor.
>> Thanks, Mayor. No question, but uh I'm

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just really thankful to have learned
that uh you can go play the course for

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free over the winter. And I went last
weekend and it was beautiful and walked

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12 holes and and still a little sore
about it. So yeah, just uh appreciate

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it. It's nice. Those fairways run pretty
good though in these dry winter

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conditions. So that ball won't stop
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» So just a reminder of the non-conent
where we had anything 500,000 or more

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that we would discuss about that. So,
just wanted to give a reminder Janine

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was the heads up on that, but I think
it'll be probably remembered. So, thank

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you, Janine.
>> So, um for items that are $500,000 or

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higher, uh those will now be on your
non-consent agenda.

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» And tonight, you have two uh one is the
screw pump project, what I which I think

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most of you are very aware of, and the
other is the McKinley Street uh work

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with YOT.
>> Brought it up after the 1.6 million

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sewer interceptor project a few weeks
back.

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That was the vice mayor initiative
>> exercising my authority.

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» You [laughter] guys, you guys put me in
the role. It's time to hand. [laughter]

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» We need to be careful.
>> What we paid for it.

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» Thank Zelma.
>> Thank you, Zelma.

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Thanks.