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Right. 6 p.m. Father's regular village
board meeting to order. If you help,

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please join me in a moment.

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» The pledge of allegiance
to the flag of the United States of

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America and to the republic for which it
stands. One nation under God,

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indivisible, with liberty and justice
for all.

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» This clerk, you take
>> Trusty Nice.

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» Trusty Tri
>> here.

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» Trusty Ferguson
>> present.

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» Trusty Char.
>> Trusty Ger

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» here.
>> Trusty Fletcher

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» present. Village President Kimy
>> President. Any public announcements this

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evening?

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Les Morgan with Chad and BFW.

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» Okay, that's green. All right. Okay. Les
Morgan with the Chad BFW. Uh, first of

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all, in observance of the 25th
anniversary of

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911, we'd like permission to be able to
put flags along Route 4 Memorial Park.

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Okay. We'll get that done. That'll be
from Wednesday to Wednesday.

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Okay. Then the next thing is September
the 18th at 700 p.m. we have a music

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bingo and at 6:00 p.m. we'll be
gathering around the flag at

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the VFW for a moment silence and in
remembrance of PM MIA.

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» Thank you.
>> Any other any further comments on our

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agenda topics
signed up? Others

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no old business. Item one under new
business is an ordinance approving

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purchase of concrete materials. Get a
motion to bring this to the floor.

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» Trusty Fletcher made a
>> motion.

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Uh Lincoln concrete $30,176.
Any further discussion or question or

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Mr. Cler?
>> Trusty Fletcher.

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» Yes.
>> Trusty Girker.

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» Yes. Trusty Nice.
>> Yes.

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» Trusty Tribe.
>> Yes.

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» Trusty Ferguson.
>> Yes.

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» Trusty Char?
>> Yes.

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» Motion to bring the consent agenda to
the floor.

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» Trusty Charles made a motion. Have a
second.

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» All second.
>> Second by Trusty Ferguson. Any

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discussion regarding the warrants or the
minutes? Hearing none. Mr.

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» Trusty Nice.
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» Trusty Tri.
>> Yes.

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» Trusty Ferguson.
>> Yes.

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» Trusty Charo.
>> Yes.

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» Trusty Ger.
>> Yes.

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» Trusty Fletcher.
>> Yes.

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» We are had to schedule on the committee.
Um,

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so we we'll start with all the comments
here. We'll let Pat give the

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administrator's report. Uh, to the
portion board concerns utility bills and

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I'll preface this off with an apology to
anybody that got impacted by this. Um

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certainly not our intention to make a
mistake like this and have an extended

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brief period but Pat and staff have been
reviewing this and going back through

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all the procedures and what happened
here. So probably beneficial to let him

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kind of walk through that
is back here and maybe as well anybody

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has questions.

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Okay.
The information below is the process

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that occurred specifically for the
reading of meters and building customers

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for July 26 usage and build at the end
of August and those bills were not due

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till the 7 15th of this month
for August 26 utility billing.

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residential meter reading route was
scheduled in our new meter reading

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software to pick up meter reads for
billing of July usage. We had that those

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dates set to read from 7:3126
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This time period allowed for the reads
to be picked up electronically through

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our meter reading software and then the
remaining reads were picked up by our

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meter reader through driveby or manual
method. With these scheduled days,

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reading customers would have
approximately been around 30 days worth

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of usage.

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In the new meter reading software, a
commercial meter reading route was

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scheduled to retrieve meter readings for
commercial customers starting

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electronically on A10, 2026.
The time mentioned above is the same

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process for reading the commercial
meters as it was for the residential

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ones.
When the commercial route was scheduled,

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the residential customers came into that
route in error. This prompted a large

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portion of the electronically read
meters that were done earlier to be

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rewritten over
and days turned out to be 41 days. 40 41

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days.
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The official building process cannot
begin until penalties were applied. So,

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no one looked at that file after all
those those reads were done. It sat in

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our computer waiting for the bills from
the previous month to come in and get

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paid. If if anybody was late, if there
was late payments to be put on there,

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stuff like that. that all has to get
added into that file before we merge the

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read to it. So, it sat there essentially
until uh it was exported on 826

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of 2026.

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So, we've read 3500 meters
electronically where you can push a

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button at one time. It reads 3,500 of
the 6,000 are still customers that we

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have.

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The error was caught when the customers
received their electronic bills on 8:26

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and then the building staff started
investigating the situation

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and issued a dealer statement on 91
2026.

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Some customers utility bills, including
electric, water, and sewer, were based

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on 40-day meter reads instead of the
normal 30-day reads. As a result, those

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bills will be higher than usual because
they included approximately 10

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additional days
for those customers. Next month reading

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period, it will be reduced by 10 days.
So, their next bill should only be

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around 20 days long.
We've identified this error in our

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process and we've taken steps to ensure
that it doesn't happen again

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and then we have a new update or we have
a new process for all employees. The

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other thing that added to the bills was
in your in your bill that you received

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back uh in

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the village board passed a water rate
increase and the sewer rate increase

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that you got a notice back on your March
26 bill that would go into effect

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June 1st, 2026 for that were due July
15th, 2026.

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Probably not noticed that much last
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because it was a normal 30-day re that

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is what we've come up with
for the reason. I'd be more than happy

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to try to answer any of the questions.
You have a question for Pat or Taylor or

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Megan?

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We had used the for two months the
system to be able to read all meters at

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one time with the idea that we'd be able
to get all of those in there, but we're

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still having issues with older meters
and stuff like that. So, we were able to

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pick those up when we drive by,
>> but our goal is to still be able to get

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to that point.
>> Those affected won't be charged a late

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fee next month.
this one or the next one.

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» This is a
>> it's a board meeting in the public.

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the questions I've been getting which
are many but one of them is why is there

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an inconsistent rate because sometimes
meters will say you know 31 days or 28

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days and so can you clarify that
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can schedule our meter reader to go out
there we try to they would split the

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talent up in the books load them on this
laptop

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and go around and pick up. You try to
get all those done on the same day. So

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if you did a certain part of the town on
Monday, you would go back the next month

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and read that part of the town on a
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and you would do the next book and just
move your way all the way around town.

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We always knew that was going to be a
bit of an issue, but we thought with a

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new system that would read all the
meters at one time that would eliminate

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that problem.

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Yeah. So that's kind of the the point
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» trying to get the automated reviews. The
first month the automated reads went

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through this we had this issue. The
second month I file on the schedule got

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overwritten on. So we're trying to cut
down on the number of things that have

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to be read by
driving by trying to do visual

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inspection. So they're advancing the
process to get it better so that it's

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all clear. The other thing that does
plug in every time is just how the

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calendar falls. So, we don't have a
specific 30 day. If you're on 30 days,

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you end up with five extra at the end of
the year or six.

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» I think we can all do that math.
>> Yeah. So, it's fairly simple.

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» Yeah. So, if if the
if you're falling on the weekend or on a

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holiday at any point in time, that start
that process moves.

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You have more questions.
>> No, not right now.

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» That's scale Lisa here. We we had we had
Lisa look through to make sure that we

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didn't miss anything with how we were
trying to address this and try to

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mitigate the sticker shot that showed up
with. One of the things that's in there

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is the notion meters are red on or about
the same day. So you can't quite get

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exactly on the same 30 days,
but certainly asset procedure

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when they have to go out or when they
have to get particularly old older homes

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with a lot of inside. Those are some of
the hardest to get at both to update.

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» Could we notify the ones we have to get
the actual physical reading off the

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meter.
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» Okay. That would that would be that
would be helpful too.

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» Can those homes get a new meter that's
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» We that's the process that we're working
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what probably 98%
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replaced. We don't have any issue
picking up the electric.

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» They read on the fixed network. Yeah.
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The water runs a little different,
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they're switching it from a radio signal
system to a southern system. We're

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hoping to approach you with a plan to be
able to switch all of the water meters

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to a southern plan in the future so that
we'll be able to do the same thing. one

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thing big small
and then once they're on the cellular I

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think my software has the process that
customers want to pay a little extra

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they can get and log into their account
and see their daily usage and stuff like

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that be able to track stuff themselves
but I haven't seen that proposal yet

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anybody else
so we have other public comments those

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just signed up Mike.
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I walk for a couple at least a couple
miles every day on the sidewalks. The

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Aspen and Spruce they've got Take a look
at the pictures and they're building

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like curbs in the middle of the
sidewalk. It's a liability hazard. Huge

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liability hazard. Just doesn't make any
sense. That would be pitched too.

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Um, page one is the entrance go from the
sidewalk to the uh street. They don't

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match anymore.
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the third page is the issue I brought.
That was it last month. They took that

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out. But when they when what they did
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they added curves to the upper portion
for no reason. There's a I3 utility box

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there which is the second picture on
page three. So it's like curves

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curves. My serious question is this
company being incentivized to curves on

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sidewalks being
what are the specs?

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Please take a look.
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meet they did and they said that they
meet the current standard. So, we're

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gonna
the curbs that are sticking up, we're

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going to paint those yellow so they'll
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» That's for wheelchairs, not to roll into
the street sitting. That's why it's new

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ADA
>> um that the engineer put all the new ADA

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rules in. That's why we have to upgrade
all those intersections. Every time we

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do a road, all four corners have to be
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» So, wheelchairs,
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roll up, they don't roll on the road.
That little bump holds them there.

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» No, there's no bump. Well, the bump is
like a 3-in curve.

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» Yeah, that's for the That's what that's
there for. So, we're going to paint it

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yellow so the kids riding bikes see it
when they're approaching it.

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» We just talked to the engineer this
morning about this, but they're just

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asking because we we've had complaints
just like you're ran into.

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» Okay.
All right. So, they're not I mean,

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they're not being paid for to put in
curbs. No, they they did exactly what

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they the engineer design
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» and we had to follow um different rules
by the states with the ADA. So,

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» but I asked him this morning if there
ADA was exactly how ADA wants it.

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» Does make sense.
>> I'm not arguing with you. We're we're

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just doing what they asked us to do. So,
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to make sure the people the kids see it.
>> Once the any snowfalls, people are going

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to be tripping over
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sidewalks.
>> You'd have to change the state ADA rules

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that it is an ADA rule or and federal.
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you that change.
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» What about the uh
the third picture at the corner of

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Spruce and Breen?
>> So, since we're in public comment, if

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you want to hang around, Dustin can help
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It's kind of not necessarily discussion
back and forth, but

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» Okay.
>> I'm sure he would be glad to hang around

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and and walk you through.
>> I understand. All

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right. Well, thank you, Megan Stats.
>> Hello everybody. Um, I had a whole big

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thing ready to go and you answered a lot
of my questions. So, I want to say thank

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you for at least the explanation here
tonight. I think a lot of people have

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been looking for that for a few days.
Um, you guys talked about sticker shock,

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but um, this is something that really
impacts people like really there are

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people that live in this village that
extra2 or $300

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makes a difference. It makes a big
difference. So, I really appreciate the

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explanation. I think a lot of people are
looking for that and I appreciate the

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ladies being here tonight. I can only
imagine how difficult it's been for the

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past week. Um,
>> a couple things I still wanted to touch

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on though that I don't feel is right is
any kind of a resolution that anybody's

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going to come to with this is been put
on the customer. So, I need to make

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appropriated payment on my bill. I need
to call the office, I'm assuming, and

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arrange that. I think new bills should
have been sent to people. And maybe your

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system doesn't allow for that, but that
needs to be explained to people. I

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shouldn't have to be the one to call or
go into the office to make my own

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arrangements to make the correct payment
for my 30 days or 33 days or what I have

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it written down here. 25 days, 29 days,
37 days. Those are all the different

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days that have been built for per month.
I let me know what a prorated payment

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is.
>> Well, we would take the 40 days for and

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the total amount of your bill and divide
it by 40 and then you would only have to

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pay 30 days of that bill
>> based on 30 days. Yeah.

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» And then the other 10 days would go on
to the next month. And then when that

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build comes in
>> just like Yeah.

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» and the meter's red, then we have to
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» Yeah. And you know what? And like my
family, we can move some things around

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and we can make it work. But there my
84y old neighbor who's on social

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security and a fixed income who doesn't
have Facebook. She doesn't have the app

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and the alerts. She has no idea. She
just gets the big bill in the mail. If

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she she's not here, I'm going to have to
relay it all to her. You know, it's I

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just think an opportunity to do better,
learn from the mistakes. I mean,

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mistakes happen. We all we all they
haven't. But I appreciate the time to

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speak and and thank you for the
explanation at least. Thank you very

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» following along. Um first of all, I'll
say I can speak to it on two different

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levels because first of all, I've had
software for accounting for 30 years

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now. But second, our welcome to when we
moved here 16 years ago was one of the

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neighbor kids turning on our outdoor
faucet which stayed on for probably four

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days and they worked with us very well.
We mentioned we had about a $750 water

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bill that time and that was 2015 and
that worked very smoothly. So the only

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thing I've got is not the immediate
followup because it sounds like you

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handled that very well. Have we now
learned a little bit about installing

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software? look at all the files and they
come up.

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» So,
>> if you work around software, do you

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know?
>> Oh, I I do. I handle the uh the highway

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reimbursement software for
>> Oh, yeah.

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» about
for you, too.

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» Anyway,
>> the bill your bill.

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» We have notes on that as well, Patrick.
No, I appreciate it. Again, we apologize

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that it happened. I know that's that's a
lot to to throw at people. Um,

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and and I know
primarily because I asked them every day

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for five days straight last week, you
know, are we sure? What are we doing?

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That they've gone back through um added
steps that we didn't have to do before.

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I mean, this this is a process like I
said that the full sweep of the fixed

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network happened fine the first time
that they run it. Nobody even knew that

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a switch. That's how you hope any
software implementation goes. Uh it's

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rare, right? Carl who also does this
that that's what you get. The second one

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we have figured out what happened
and to Megan

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and team utility office. They have gone
through this exceptionally detailed into

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individualized steps and move things
around.

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if things will be checked and double
checked by multiple people.

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» So, we appreciate the grace as we
learned something um

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anytime that we talk about utility bills
and things because they are so

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individualized to your own house. the
best advice and what does help us as a

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village and our staff. If somebody has a
question of it, the best place to get

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answers about any particular usage at a
certain residence or a bill about a

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certain residence is encourage people to
contact the utility office. They're the

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ones that can open up an account, tell
you exactly what they're seeing with

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regards to your house. We try to issue
something in a generalized statement.

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We're trying to tailor something that
makes sense to 6,000 plus utility

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customers and can't get granular enough
without writing a novel that everybody

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stops reading after the first two
paragraphs.

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That's where we are. Again, I'll
apologize.

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There was a lot to see.
All right. Are there any other public

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comments on
hearing? We back to the schedule. Next

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village board meeting is September 22nd
6 p.m. We have no need for executive

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session. So we'll entertain a motion to
adjourn the board meeting portion of

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tonight's festivities.
>> Trust made a motion second by truster.

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All in favor

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624.
>> Trusty Fletcher

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» here.
>> Trusty Ger

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» here.
>> Trusty Ferguson

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» present.
>> Trusty Try

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» here.
>> Trusty Nice

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» present. Trusty
>> Char.

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Any public comments on agenda topics?
>> Hearing none. Can I have a motion to

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bring the consent agenda to the table?
>> I make a motion.

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» Motion made by Trusty Ferguson.
Seconded by Trusty Try. Any discussion

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on the consent agenda?
>> Hearing none. All in favor? I

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» no old business new business. Do we have
a CMT?

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» We do not.
>> All right.

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» But I have
second part of my update.

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So for the month of August,
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the residents of Chadam purchased
37,225,380

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gallons of water from South S water.
We completed our water main taps in

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Spartan Lake states.

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We did all of our
EPA requested sampling in that month.

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leaks located on Bingham Road in Hodes

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and put in all the utility locates for
the month of August and

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our Julie utility locates for the month
of August.

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Street department rebuilt the roadway
shoulders on East Walnut Street. Did

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some asphalt patching throughout town.
Repair Covered Bridge Road, El Camino,

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and South Gate for seal coating and oil
chip.

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Performed by trail maintenance within
40T section on our park.

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Completed tree on spruce and bracket
ridge.

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removed a lot of vegetation along cover
bridge road which all we've got is

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praise for that ever since we did that
and replaced some signs in M park.

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Lastly, in the parks department,
we completed right away mowing and trim

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all the village cemeteries.
Got all football fields, soccer fields

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and everything else ready for activities
as kids come back from school. Performed

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maintenance on our shop and completed
vegetation control at the park.

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So, it's been busy.

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questions.
>> No, I I would like to say one thing

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though. I do appreciate
how well the building department has

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worked to get the resolution done and we
do like to hear from

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and we appreciate some grace because
we're all learning as we

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just wanted to say thanks for the ones
who reached out to me and to listen and

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understood what was happening and for
everyone that took the calls at the

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water department
and took

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calls. So, thank you to you for helping
us out.

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» It's we have pride in our work that we
do and when we mess up we try to figure

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out what went wrong. We try to be
truthful with people and we try to come

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up with solutions to be able so that it
will impact them release them. This is

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what we come up with this time. I know
it's going to impact some people but

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we try.
>> Yeah. And that's I think that's the

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thing is I'm happy to know that we're
able to help the homes that need healthy

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and give them a solution and we can't go
back and fix it. Would you help them

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forward?
>> Somebody's unable to come in, they would

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just make a phone call at the office.
So, the girls will have stuff on the

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computer and they'll be able to talk to
figure out something.

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Anything else on the left?
So I wanted to ask you about again

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because the other um questions so I get
different types of questions they have

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to do with water they have to do with
electric and they have to do with our

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roads and so I'm asking about
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has one more week sitting out on the bid
By our meeting in two weeks, you'll have

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in front of you what the bids are and
asking you to accept the low bid.

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If the weather holds and we got a
contractor that's not super busy,

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they'll probably jump off right away,
get it taken care of. So from

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Boulevard down to Teal, we do all the
ground down to resurface and better

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these things.
that that covers up some of the bulkhead

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work.
Jim call them bulkhead because I call

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the concrete patch goes in there to hold
the road together.

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» Oh yeah.
>> Um and then we have additional patching

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that has been done on Jason Place and
trying to do the same thing. So

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when you see the concrete strips that
get cut out of the road, poured back in,

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that is reinforcement that keeps the
road together so we don't have to spend

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the money to replace the entirety of the
room. And then as either on the MF front

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state to approve the letting plans,
they've done that, they're out, it's

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coming in,
but we do eventually get back to with a

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nice black smooth surface over the top.
That is what that concrete patch goes

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into town is well not perfect
saves a lot of money by not having to

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replace the entirety of the road and let
it go. But we do a lot of those along

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road like tick and going north of the
plumber. There's been a lot of patches

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along it. It saved that road. That road
hasn't deteriorated anymore since we

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started doing that patching along there.
But the plan is to grind all that off or

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at least the top couple inches and then
resurface all that difference. A lot of

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heavy equipment in there right now.
That's right. The spot where we stopped

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is right.

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» Dustin has done a really good job on top
of our roads.

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and work with contractors.
>> Firstborn firstborn that's been

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completed. Uh the area that was patched
the other day uh was traded. It was part

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of a letter of credit for Mayor Hill 2
phase 2. And the contractor agreed to

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instead of doing one thing, he would dig
all that area up there and patch it.

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So that's all been done.
So you'll also have at the next meeting

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if they release his letter for part of
man to phase two.

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» I received it a few time.
>> Oh yeah.

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» Was that was that is that the call with
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» I mean as far as you calling
the concrete underneath of it is the

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whole kit. Yeah. Then put that over the
top. But even even the last update that

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Jim gave us with the screen that's
underneath that was kept well and

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overall that those that folks on the
road have

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» we have a plan going forward what roads
to take care of stuff and the technology

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so far
>> the two years

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» two of the projects that we put in for
s uh progress

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» have progressed through the technical
committee and will be available for the

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executive committee to vote on
week from Thursday. So if that's the

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case two more big projects that should
move forward to at the same time as the

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MFT stuff and experimental road stuff
we'll try to start tackling those from

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three different pots going forward.
The sad stuff we get

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projects through that our portion of
that project cost

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31% total project cost
through money that's coming

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some of these that we know we need to
tackle depending on the functional

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classification of road
we try to get matching money and

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leverage others to go further. So that's
my subsequ All

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right.

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So,
no public properties.

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Any

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public comments on business?

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Hearing none.
The next scheduled meeting is October

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13th for the committee of the whole. We
have no reason for our close session. So

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I will take a motion to adjourn.

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Trusty T made a motion. Second

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by

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all in favor. All right. This meeting is