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motion.
I'll second

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second. Any discussion or questions? All
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Oh,

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new business.
Well, the old business. Did you ever

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work?

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That's all. I thought we' already had
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Do you have any

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right now?

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They cut it off and it's got a big
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Uh, we talk about it. We talk about it.

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You said I talked to Mr.

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And he said he did what he was told.

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What are you talking about?
At her room.

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No, we're not going to do any rumors or
say anything

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legal or anything like that.
Not rumors.

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Not going to do anything.
I I talked to him

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personally. He did
and he said he did what he was told and

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I said, "Well, he said he did." I said,
"Okay, you did what you were told that

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you come to the council and tell the
counsel." And he said he would. So,

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tell what he did.

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I told him he said I said yeah

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anything else

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and uh you got
I think took care one of the holes right

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there street where the manhole is
talked about it and your

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relic. Y'all ordering one. Did y'all
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We did. They were wrong size. We have to
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Okay. But y'all did order something,
right?

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Yes.
Okay. Thank y'all for putting it

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sign up

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stand up there for people to see in
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Did you know that was up there?
Sign.

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You don't know nothing about

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maybe maybe it's got a city on top stand
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the little reflective green like your
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You didn't know nothing about that,
but it's up there. But y'all did some

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Yes.
on that uh

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on the water running Mike
from the street down there on

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coming by the church right here.
Coming down that hill.

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Oh
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Okay.
We had talked about that a while back.

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It's a ditch starting there right there
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by the extension office where the water
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And when they get down there to the
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pipe down there, a pipe is under the
road, but down the pipe where the

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water's going off in there. I think it's
where that is right there. Stay down

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there. But anyway, the water is running
down there. It's flooding people down

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there. We need to do something. It's
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from uptown
and it's not out

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there. You know where the large is here.
It's not hurting. It's hurting those

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people down there.

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Whatever it looks bad

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and the uh
the road right there by by

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coming down. Do we have any money to pay
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come down
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that's bad?

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Mitch, what about the ordinance for the
zoning and also the ordinance for the

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bake shop? Have we made any progress on
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Which which ordinance for the zoning?
I know we were going to put an ordinance

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together where the council appoints the
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pass.
What you you've already got the

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ordinance together?
That that passed.

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I know we voted on doing the ordinance
last meeting. I just wondered if you've

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gotten it together.
Oh, yeah. It's already Yeah. is already

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done and it's already been passed.
Yeah, I think I think it already did.

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You already run in the paper, didn't
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did. I mean, everything's done on that.
And what about the vape shot one? I know

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we talked about that last meeting.
We did. I have not had a chance to do

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anything.
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That's the one we said we're going to
try to avoid anything.

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That's right.
Of that nature.

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That's That's right.

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That set us.

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Did we get Don added to the check
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No, not yet. I'm sorry. I've been knee
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I know.

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You want to say that

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before Let me speak. Let me say this.
Whatever the agenda is here.

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Yeah.
The story is that a couple of you

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sitting here started the rumor that I
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election.

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Came from came from a person's mouth
that heard somebody up here saying that

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I wanted I have no control over. Not
only is this unprofessional and

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unethical, but it's a lie.
And Don Don Don is a professional. His

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reputation is at stake when you say
something like that. If anybody said

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that I did an apology, he gets to
apology and you should resign.

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Who said it? Who said bottom line?
Who said it?

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I think I think who said it knows who
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So here's what Let me clarify. Let me
clarify the air on what was there.

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Nothing been said to that nature. I
haven't been in town to start a rumor. M

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the rumor is going through the community
and I don't know what

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No, it's nothing to do with the council.
The rumors start to What's the rumor?

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The rumor delaying the
rumor. The rumor. The rumor.

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You realize that I don't have any
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But let me clarify. Nobody up here said
that. It's out in the streets.

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Nobody up here said that.
Nobody.

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You go get me a Bible. I'll put my hand
on it right now.

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You bet. You don't. But I'm saying that
the story is that somebody on this

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council started it. I don't think I had
heard I hadn't heard that.

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I've heard I've heard I'm saying it.
I've heard it in the street.

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If it's in the streets, somebody started
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I've heard in the street.
It's unprofessional. And that not only

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does it put me and I'll tell you
something. I worked my ass off since

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1992 to make this town better. Chamber
of Commerce, teachers fundraising,

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school board for 23 years.
I have been to every single meeting.

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Have you heard? Have you heard
that that's gone?

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I understand. We're talking about city
council now. We're not talking about

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school board or anything else. This is
city council.

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Nothing to do with school board.
We're not worried about reputation.

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We're not worried about
make a reputation and make this place

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better. I will not allow it to be
smeared by anybody.

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Who is who is smearing?
I'm saying anybody ask the question.

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Answer the question.
You answered.

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I'm asking.
I said anybody's doing that.

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Nobody up here has started a room that
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you're aware
that I'm aware of. Nobody's starting to

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rise.
Let's move on.

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No, let's move to this. It's also been
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responsible.
That's unethical, too. And that's not

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true. That's a lie.
I would not say why.

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That's what people are telling us.
That's the same.

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That's what people are telling us.
Why would they say that the city council

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is responsible?
That's the money.

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City city cafe, you know,
here's the deal. Here's the deal. I mean

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that works both ways.
We got money. The general fund is one

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bucket. We've got seven other buckets
that it comes into. Let me explain this

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to you real quick. Don,
well, we're going to go through all the

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audits.
We're going to reiterate this. But after

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that last meeting, people took social
media. The city's broke. People losing

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their jobs. Nobody's getting a paycheck.
Everybody got a paycheck. Nobody lost

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their jobs. It's Chicken Little and the
boy who cried war is what the problem

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is. And I'm telling you that we need to
This is a professional job, y'all. City

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council mayor is an absolutely
professional job

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both ways, Mike.
It and it and it's and it's being

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answering to the voters and doing all
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be. And this this goes back to training.
This goes back to keeping things in

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house that need to be in house and
working together for the betterment of

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the city.
Did Did you say that, Mike? Or have you

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started that room?
I wouldn't say that

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because that's the city council.
How's the city council responsible for?

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That's what we want to know. We said we
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financials.
I didn't see

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we didn't have financials at all.
People can't verify.

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The city council has not been provided
proper financials to make any financial

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decisions.
I'll say this, y'all have check

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registers. You have balances in it. Yes,
you box down right here. Check

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registers. You have balances of every
bucket in the account. And y'all have

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had this for a long time. And the very
What? financials.

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Don told us one day that what we were
getting were not financials. Isn't that

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correct, Don?
Financial statements.

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Okay,
that's our state is financials. Y'all

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need the state of the money in the city.
Y'all got that? Y'all got that?

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We didn't get
every

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pull it out and show it to show it to
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can't produce it. It's not there.
I'm not going to take time to look

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through there. You're spinning it. You
put all the PR you want to on it, Mike.

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But but it's not there.
We can produce it.

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It's not there. No, you can't. Not
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it up because it didn't it didn't come
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We can produce it.
We've kept every document that we've

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gotten and we hadn't gotten those
documents every meeting.

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You had check register.
Okay. Sure. Show them.

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I kept asking for that. I kept asking
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I'll get
Hold on a minute. I kept asking for a

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financial statement from last year this
month to this year this month so that we

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can make sure we are we can adjust our
our budget in case we have to just we

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never got that I promise I even talk to
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don't get it to us get it to the people
since you're claiming we got it showing

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He's looking.
Is it my turn or what? I mean, I'm here.

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The proof's in the pudding. We're going
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Oh, I'm fine.
I see you looking at

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you want to pass that down.
I got them at home and I don't have

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financial.
That's not going to be financial. Put it

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in there yourself.
I've gotten I've kept asking for them. I

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think I asked you twice.
It said it, but that ain't

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It said it, but that's not what
it could be something you put in that

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book. We didn't get it.
We didn't get it. We hadn't got it,

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Mike. I'm not going to sit up until said
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the public seems to think what we just
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that we are the reason that the audit is
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Yeah, we got used to that too.
We have we have been thrown under the

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bus, run over back and forth and drug
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trying to get is the answers to
questions and Mike has told us more than

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one time we are not micromanaging him.
Trying to find out where the taxpayers

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money went is not micromanaging.

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So, is it our fault if the cities?
I'm not sure. I'm not going to counsel.

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I can tell you what. I mean, I can tell
you stuff that I found and I will have

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the full audit report completed. Tracy's
here. We got all the final general fund

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entries made today. It's taking a while.
I will tell you this.

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All this discussion aside, I do audits
from Mobile Florence. So,

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like all of you, but nobody's that
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So, I was just say this,
any discussion about anything being

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delayed until after the election has
never been made to me, never been asked.

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I have no interest in in that at all on
that. I have no interest in delaying it

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more than it's absolutely necessary. We
have probably dug in and spent a little

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bit of extra time based on our
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probably something like that maybe four
and it's taken a while and I'll be

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honest with you part of the reason it's
taken a while and many of you in here

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had we've had this conversation in one
form or another is uh you know we do

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audits for a lot of people and I got
people that they're expecting their

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audits to be done and when things are
right and you get it done you go and you

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get the work and they deserve that and
then you know for aundary reasons this

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one even
And it's been a it's been a fight. It's

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been a push. It's been a tough audit.
It's been a very tough audit. And

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there's some reasons for it. And
we share. Don't ask. I'll be glad.

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anyway.
He's doing a deep dive.

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And that's why it's taking longer. He's
digging.

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Is that why it's taking longer, Don?
What's your reasoning for taking longer?

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We are doing what we would do to try to
get anybody's financial statements in

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the reportable condition we hope they're
supposed to be in. They should be send

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the state gets a copy of every audit
that's done. require state law that goes

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in whether I've got a clean opinion on
it or whether I have to issue a

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disclaimer of opinion at center or
anywhere else that I've had to do that

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before the state gets it and they see
some of the findings and things that may

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be reported in there and then they may
take it further. They may not they may

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not do it any time there's no findings
and stuff and hopefully that's the way

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it always is. That's not going to be
completely the case this time.

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discuss some of the items regarding
taxes and penalties

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payments
fuel companies and things like a lot of

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different things that were laid. You
know, we talked about some probably

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we went back and looked. We have gone
back and looked three years. That's a

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full three year period on on the city
side. We're not put finished on the

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water side
to do it.

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It's not extensive for them, but they
got their own I got their own set of

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audit stuff to deal with them. But
there's been over the last three and a

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half years about if you count those
periods about $35,000 in penalties and

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interest you paid to the I know you're
up to date, but you had to pay a lot of

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that.
So in regards to probably 60% of that

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councilman has been Brad has been in the
last this last cycle.

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Let me ask you this. in regards to that.
So, so we paid we paid penalties and

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interest on previous years. So, that was
never disclosed to the council. So, so

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with with that being said, you know, you
got you got X number of payroll, whether

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it be five, 600, $700,000 for city
employees,

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you look at that number and you know you
got to pay X percentage of income tax

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off of off of that number. All right.
So, if we go back to a 2023 IRS audit

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where they look at our taxes and say,
"Y'all didn't y'all didn't pay your

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taxes on this." Why were we not alerted
as a council back in 2023 at that audit

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time? Or were we? Did is that something
I'm just being pointed. Is that

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something is that something you missed
as as an accountant or was it something

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that was told to the administration, to
the mayor or whoever that it never got

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worded back to the council?
Right. We reported that to

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administration. We did. We've discussed
all those things at different levels

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with mayor and clerk staff that's
responsible for making those papers.

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Should he not have told us
that's that's the RS that y'all got and

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said I'm glad we got these.
I'm not talking about a month ago, Mike.

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I'm talking

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years ago.
That's reason. You got you got way to

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audit weeds, but you get into the whole
concept of the entity as a whole and

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different things you're focusing on. We
may go through there and see two, three

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quarters that are laid. And I know one
quarter in particular when you had some

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fraud issues going on for a time or two
in the past, the bank there. A lot of

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people had to deal with and there were
some penalties and stuff charged there

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and for whatever reason to me that would
have been one you could have gotten

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penalties waved on. There's no record,
you know, that that ever happened. I

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would have certainly encouraged that,
you know, that kind of stuff. So then

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you kind of get into we've had a whole
lot of software changes

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issues. We reported about trying to get
pavements separated and allocated so you

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can clearly see all the different things
that were done and that is all part of

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that and that's just unfortunately with
one we're in now. It's just got worse.

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Before before we get into the numbers I
have some preliminary stuff.

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I'll show you
I mean it's all

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let me ask you this before we start
walking through the numbers. So, and I'm

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not going to
How long have you been an accountant?

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Oh, gosh. 37 years.
In your in your 37y year history, um,

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where does this audit rank? Is it as
worst as being worst? A Is it top 10,

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top five? Is it the worst? Where we at?
It's It's in the most It's in the It's

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in the top few, unfortunately. Top
three,

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five or so. Yeah, it's up there.
It's top 10, unfortunately. I would say

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that. Um,
you know, I've had I've had some for

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various reasons that I would put in
category. It's just part of it. I do

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think I think clearly
staff was overwhelmed with some of this.

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And so there's you could say in some
respect staff just said, "Hey, I got

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and I need I need kind of help can get
me out of this. and that you know didn't

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happen and we're all prone to want to
fix it on our own.

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So, you know, we got I think I think
that's honestly that's my from over

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here. I think that's part of it. That
doesn't excuse any of those. Um yeah, no

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excuse for sure. But, uh you know, we
voted on doing a forensic audit and

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we've been kind of waiting on on your
feedback, some feedback from you.

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What What is your personal opinion? You
know, you got two audits there. Just so

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far as to what you've gotten into,
you've gotten into the water. You're

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pretty much done with water. You gotten
pretty deep in the city. What have you

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seen so far? I mean, do you feel like
we've got justification for for a

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forensic audit on the city water portion
or the city uh city portion in general

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or I mean, what have you found? Before
you get into numbers, ask.

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Well, first I would say firstly on your
the water side, which you'll address

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with the water board more directly, but
you obviously have

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billing and collections and there's just
a whole lot of different factors that we

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do on customer. So the extent that if
there was an issue there obviously

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that's somewhere that gets more involved

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how that transpires when we finish this
we'll go there that's not our call at

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that point anyway the city side honestly
council I would say probably at this

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point no we beat it pretty hard and you
got to figure out if if there was enough

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there that's unknown that could be found
a forensic audit would come in and say,

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"Hey, here's stuff that's, you know,
it's not job performance related. It's

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not, you know, just being late. It's not
been whatever." something that they

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could actually
at this point I haven't seen that

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cost a lot of money
back to the mayor's point I think agreed

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earlier the state gets a copy of this
there would be no control

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if I send a disclaimer which right now I
would say it's quite possible because of

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all that stuff to change software's

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There's a limit where we can go and
issue a regular. We you know the state

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gets that they could decide to send a
couple of examiners over here and stay

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over here for a month or two and make
life miserable

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probably two or three more employees
won't stay here unfortunately but you

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know and I don't know they would do that
they would have to look and that

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typically they would consult with us
once those things are released and as

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you know what they would do

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items that we may have found or
whatever, they would act accordingly.

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Let's just put this way. If you spend on
if they were to decide to do something

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like that,
you wouldn't want to spend,

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right? Right.
Well, I guess to put it that way, I know

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I read the minutes and I see that stuff,
so you know, I would take it off the

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table. It's been voted on already.
Yeah. Right. Take it off the table, but

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you know, I wouldn't get ahead of it
necessarily.

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Waiting on this one. Anyway,
talking about the the general fund

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numbers, Don, what is what is typically
what typical amount for a city should be

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held in general fund at any given time
should be two and a half months worth of

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worth of revenue.
You okay?

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Yeah, this goes right actually goes to
your question

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here. This is

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It's not 100%

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probably by and large

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generally good rule of thumb three
months is probably a good rule of thumb

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and uh if you look at this is September
okay and the bank accounts were

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reconciled so you know that that part of
an audit went well you know bank

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accounts reconciled that's half the
battle

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But if you look at your two main
accounts in general fund, you only got

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$84,000

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$84,000
$84,000 general fund.

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And what did we owe in in uh income
taxes?

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Taxes payable and acred. Some of that's
acred because it's, you know, based on

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IRS notices and stuff about $67

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plus retirement payments. What if you
had retirement?

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How much?
38,000.

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So 60 68 you said
105,000 between.

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So 105,000 we owed in between retirement
income tax.

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You owe more than you had cash in the
bank. The retirement I think all that

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retirement maybe say one or two periods
was all paid shortly in October. Most of

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it was paid in October. All the
retirements in

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some of that later

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we've recruited it all since then
and I think it's all been paid sort of

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maybe something that got waved I know
one period they waved some penalties but

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the law says if it's past three years
they don't refund it to

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I haven't really
you look at those transcripts

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and
their how they do it versus how I don't

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know for sure I couldn't tell I couldn't
tell you specifically whether any of

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that track forward but that happened
later so I haven't seen a refund check

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that's what speaking of penalties that's
what you know we've been told that we

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didn't pay any penalties for the IRS
And you told me the other day in the

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office we paid $25,000 you knew of and
then you asked Mike

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had he got a reimbursement that you
didn't know about. So we did pay at

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least $25,000 in penalties according to
you last Friday.

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The city paid Yes, the city paid
penalties.

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We were told we didn't pay. We were
clear.

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Well, we were on the phone with the IRS
officer and she said, "Y'all weigh the

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penalties. Y'all are clear."
But how did we pay $20,000?

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That's what she told us. I mean, we were
we had her on the phone. Tracy and I we

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were celebrating.
Well, they haven't they haven't sent a

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check yet.
I haven't seen

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Yeah, I haven't seen a notice. But but
what happens is your EFTBS payments made

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by the clerk on the payroll run.
They should be made weekly or at the

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time payroll
utility tax payments with tax payments

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by certain day of each month.

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I haven't seen any refunds.

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So, if you look at that, what you're
saying is, you know,

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I know I've been down here and been
talking about it. Mayor talks about it.

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It's tough. It's tight. It's tight. You
go through the end of September and then

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you try to catch up on everything. What
you end up doing I know where you used

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to work you get all this money comes in
in January and February and what's

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happened is the city had to use a lot of
it

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to backtrack with instead of having it
to have as well going forward. So

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that abnormal for city long as I've been
here

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no the money coming in by that point is
not abnormal. That's just you were you

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were having to use some of that money to
peel some back and get behind. It's just

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got that's just going to tighter between
now and November. It's just going to be

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tight.
It's going to be tight because I

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remember whole time I've been we've
always borrowed money in November and

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December
through December

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September.
Get us through those months. Then when

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the tax uh come in in January, February,
we catch up and pay that loan back to

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the bank. But we never been this tight
in this middle of the month. Okay. As

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long as I've been here,
but since we did the one cent sales tax,

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we were doing that when I did my first
term. This last term, once we did the

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one cent sales tax, we came out of
we got all that. We came back. So, I

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just didn't know where where that tide
turned at

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after we got the one that saved us.
We didn't have to borrow that money.

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We didn't. And so I don't know why we
typed that but you just say it while we

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Yes. other things
that was a huge mistake

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financially speaking another reason this
is taken because I know that question

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has been out there
everywhere taking why is it taking

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well it's like Mike said Mike said when
I got to speak Mike said we're not going

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to go through this hearing and then he
come back back with hearay. So really

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all of it just hearsay.
Okay. It really should be okay.

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I'm just order

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a no better than mine.
You know

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it's just hearsay.
But u

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you don't go on that d came up in the
meeting. Mine's here. His hearay should

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have never came up. Is no better than
mine.

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Just just a quick couple of you might
understand where I'm going with this. I

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just want you to understand it a little
bit. Okay. Just

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Okay. If you get the second page of that
says income statement and you you look

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down about halfway the bold numbers say
2.3

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2 mill362,000
okay three month reserve that is about

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$600,000
so you well short of that you know some

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of it's the stuff we're talking about
some of it the city probably got into

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before some of y'all are really fully
responsible for it based on different

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things I hear that the city pays for
versus you know y'all don't have a

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right funding your revenue. So, you
know, is everything being paid like it

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should between entities? I don't know.
But that I just hear

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my mental math starts going off going
that's hurting the city center

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doing a good thing.

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Oh, but that you know that's that's
budget issues to work out for sure. But

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but that puts you well short of where
you want to be. And you had been

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two years. But you look I want say just
real quick. You look right down below

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that about four lines. You see some big
numbers for salaries and taxes.

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So
city paid all this money for the

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software but the software is not even
breaking down salaries and the taxes

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properly by department. just kind of it
just kind of pulled all this stuff in

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from old system and dumped it and it's
trying to break some of it down now. But

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the old system should have had it broken
down by I'm pretty sure it did.

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So when they started pulling all this
over, I hate to say it's like every one

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of them I ever go behind it like, "Oh,
we're going to do this for you and it's

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going to convert like this and it's
going to work like this." And so we just

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like pulling him off. It didn't work out
that way. So consequently, you got just

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even just basic financial reporting
issues that I'm having to wade through

430
00:33:32,399 --> 00:33:40,799
to try to let's just say worst case
scenario. We discussed this

431
00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:47,000
if I had to do a disclaimer because of
all this I can't put that's not a good

432
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:47,000
thing.

433
00:33:50,159 --> 00:33:59,200
You still want your financials looking
in proper order because you got to send

434
00:33:56,080 --> 00:34:03,360
this stuff to your financial
people that hold your debt and all that.

435
00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:07,600
So
as bad as that other is, you still want

436
00:34:05,519 --> 00:34:13,119
the numbers to look in at least the
proper order. You may not be happy with

437
00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:17,520
them, but you want them to look like
someone when they get it. At least

438
00:34:16,159 --> 00:34:21,040
they're not coming back at you about
that because they'll certainly respond

439
00:34:19,040 --> 00:34:24,679
and What is the city doing to try to get
this financial picture?

440
00:34:24,800 --> 00:34:32,480
So, we paid $86,000
for nothing.

441
00:34:29,760 --> 00:34:35,919
Well, Miss Tracy's learning to use it
back there, but it's as we were talking

442
00:34:34,240 --> 00:34:38,480
about voted to do something else.
We working on it.

443
00:34:37,280 --> 00:34:40,399
We don't change.
Keep working on it. But look,

444
00:34:39,760 --> 00:34:44,960
I know it's hard.
You got you got to get this out of the

445
00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:48,960
way and done and save everything. And
you got to data bank all the stuff from

446
00:34:47,040 --> 00:34:54,560
October to now.
do the cut off

447
00:34:52,159 --> 00:34:58,960
and you know you're going to be you're
already you're hitting third quarter

448
00:34:57,440 --> 00:35:05,200
you're going to be hardressed at this
point not break the clean break October

449
00:35:02,720 --> 00:35:09,119
one and get to the end of
that was water but still that's a lot of

450
00:35:07,200 --> 00:35:15,920
money to waste
and for whatever reason they still

451
00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:20,800
owe them a much more money
but that's that's another discussion

452
00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:27,599
But anyway, I mean that's just where
we're at. I I would u

453
00:35:24,079 --> 00:35:31,760
I would fully I think Miss Dan told me
September I mean July 15th next meeting.

454
00:35:30,079 --> 00:35:38,400
That'll be hard. The first meeting in
August we'll have your report. It'll be

455
00:35:34,640 --> 00:35:43,920
Don based on what you've seen so far. Um
to me it's obvious we've got more going

456
00:35:42,240 --> 00:35:49,760
out every month than we've got coming
in. Um,

457
00:35:46,800 --> 00:35:54,920
we definitely need to to look at some
things, I think. What's your

458
00:35:50,880 --> 00:35:54,920
professional opinion on that?

459
00:35:56,800 --> 00:36:06,640
I don't know, Mr. Brad. Um,
obviously I thought I got to the season

460
00:36:04,240 --> 00:36:11,599
fairly tight situations for, you know,
maybe other reasons, but similar a

461
00:36:08,640 --> 00:36:19,200
difficult financial position and, you
know, can't be paying folks over

462
00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:23,079
You want to work hard
to do

463
00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:31,920
start with things like that and you know
people don't want to fire anybody I

464
00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:35,680
don't
somebody leaves next month and go

465
00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:40,640
somewhere else you don't replace them
you know you can't

466
00:36:38,640 --> 00:36:45,119
whatever other discretionary kind of
spending you got I would honestly say

467
00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:48,640
between
You know, November, you can't do a whole

468
00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:53,359
lot.
You just can't. I mean, you you get 60%

469
00:36:51,520 --> 00:36:59,839
or more of your budget comes in by the
end of February, and you got to get till

470
00:36:56,000 --> 00:37:04,320
the last week of October before even a
property tax payment comes in

471
00:37:01,599 --> 00:37:09,320
significant enough to sneeze that and
you know, that's just the first dec.

472
00:37:10,560 --> 00:37:17,359
Tracy, what was your Do you know your in
and out for June?

473
00:37:14,160 --> 00:37:20,560
For June? No, I'm not even I'm sorry.
It's just first.

474
00:37:18,960 --> 00:37:23,680
Yeah,
just curious.

475
00:37:22,160 --> 00:37:27,119
I know where I know where we stood in
May when we talked about it last

476
00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:30,720
meeting. I was just curious for June.
Yeah, the bank statement just came

477
00:37:28,640 --> 00:37:34,720
today. So, it's going to take me a few
days to get

478
00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:37,520
when are we going
what meeting? going to be the first

479
00:37:36,240 --> 00:37:40,880
meeting of the month and the third
meeting of the month that we may get a

480
00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:45,359
financial statement of where we stand
with our budget with our year to date

481
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:50,240
in our budget.
Um

482
00:37:47,280 --> 00:37:55,520
hopefully by next meeting
but I'm I'm like Don defin Yeah, it's

483
00:37:53,040 --> 00:38:00,560
coming definitely you know I feel like
definitely by August but I I hope to

484
00:37:58,480 --> 00:38:04,839
have it next time.
For the record, we didn't get one

485
00:38:01,839 --> 00:38:04,839
tonight.

486
00:38:10,240 --> 00:38:13,640
The clerk The

487
00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:28,240
She did tell me she would send me trial
balance reports. I look at them.

488
00:38:25,280 --> 00:38:30,079
And that wasn't a knock on you.
Just making it weird that we don't get

489
00:38:29,520 --> 00:38:35,359
them every time.
All right, you run now. Got one like

490
00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:42,599
this in years.
We looked at some of it today. It's It's

491
00:38:37,839 --> 00:38:42,599
difficult. I'm just going to be

492
00:38:43,119 --> 00:38:50,560
Yeah, sooner we can get out of it
honestly better. But Tracy, we probably

493
00:38:47,599 --> 00:38:55,920
October 1 to release full plug. Yeah,
I've I've been entering stuff from the

494
00:38:53,440 --> 00:39:01,680
old system to the new system, but you
know, you got to get from

495
00:38:58,800 --> 00:39:07,240
October to now before you can go
forward. And and so it's just time. It's

496
00:39:03,680 --> 00:39:07,240
just taking time.

497
00:39:09,520 --> 00:39:19,280
Yeah.
You know, I had talked to you about the

498
00:39:13,839 --> 00:39:23,520
93,000 that was back in early 20202.
And you said you thought it was paid

499
00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:28,240
back in 23.
Was it paid back?

500
00:39:26,000 --> 00:39:33,040
23. You took that off.
Okay.

501
00:39:28,720 --> 00:39:37,119
Did it go back into the seven gas?
Where did it end up?

502
00:39:36,240 --> 00:39:41,640
Got all that money.
I think it was seven. This was

503
00:39:43,680 --> 00:39:47,920
there was some stuff between the four
and the capital.

504
00:39:45,920 --> 00:39:51,839
Okay.
because the seven you had some fun but

505
00:39:50,400 --> 00:39:53,680
then y'all pulled some of it here
recently.

506
00:39:52,640 --> 00:39:57,440
Yeah, we did
help cover reimburse the city for street

507
00:39:56,079 --> 00:40:01,400
workers
that was $63,000.

508
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:09,320
It was
I remember I know we talked

509
00:40:11,599 --> 00:40:20,560
that.
Okay. And um another thing um you talked

510
00:40:17,119 --> 00:40:25,040
to us one time and told us that you were
having a hard time trying to find

511
00:40:22,720 --> 00:40:30,720
receipts to match expenditures. Did you
ever find all the receipts you needed

512
00:40:27,760 --> 00:40:35,880
and was file?
That's that's some of the delay. Okay.

513
00:40:36,480 --> 00:40:45,599
So, some of the files may be hard to get
into what you're looking for, right?

514
00:40:42,320 --> 00:40:46,960
Yeah. Following needed need to be much
better.

515
00:40:46,400 --> 00:40:52,880
Okay.
You started on this in February.

516
00:40:51,119 --> 00:40:55,119
First first bit of it I believe was in
February.

517
00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:58,560
What's What's a good
Believe me, I don't like it sitting on

518
00:40:56,319 --> 00:41:03,440
my desk.
What's a good smooth out look like? How

519
00:41:00,240 --> 00:41:07,440
long does it usually take?
Well, one you got a board, water board

520
00:41:05,599 --> 00:41:14,280
and stuff like that this size. So, you
know,

521
00:41:09,200 --> 00:41:14,280
smooth in and out. This should take

522
00:41:14,319 --> 00:41:20,960
two weeks. Probably not even two weeks
of full time in here.

523
00:41:18,720 --> 00:41:25,760
No, I got to go back and get the report,
you know, that's another issue.

524
00:41:24,079 --> 00:41:29,440
You got stuff you got to get confirmed
and you got to put stuff together and

525
00:41:27,119 --> 00:41:34,079
you got to get retirement all your
typically a couple months turnound.

526
00:41:31,680 --> 00:41:40,560
getting reports back,
you know, but I mean ideally we would

527
00:41:36,880 --> 00:41:46,319
have this to you at least.
Well, I I'll say this.

528
00:41:44,079 --> 00:41:51,760
I'll say this.
You've been handed mess. Thank you for

529
00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:55,680
what you're doing.
Well, I know everybody's trying to get

530
00:41:53,760 --> 00:42:00,880
it's difficult and it's hard and it's
frustrating.

531
00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:04,800
I think I talked to everybody there. I
think everybody over there is frustrated

532
00:42:02,240 --> 00:42:08,480
with it.
Everybody just wants

533
00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:11,200
in different ways and I I'm frustrated
with it. I want to give you all the

534
00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:15,920
answers I can and I want to get it put
together where I can show you and only

535
00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:19,319
get reports. It frustrates me when you
can't do that.

536
00:42:20,079 --> 00:42:28,160
I will say this, we do have that and
that gets me that that Tracy's got us

537
00:42:25,359 --> 00:42:32,560
well started. The only technically
adjustments I have left to get the final

538
00:42:30,800 --> 00:42:37,680
order done is I have to go and take a
few expenditures for I think you bought

539
00:42:35,520 --> 00:42:42,480
a grapple truck last year. You did some
paving, you know,

540
00:42:40,960 --> 00:42:46,480
call it what you want.
Well, you got you got some things that

541
00:42:44,640 --> 00:42:49,119
came out of one of the gas tax ones for
some of that. I don't know about all

542
00:42:47,520 --> 00:42:55,520
this recent pay. Actually, most of that
money was still in the bank at the end

543
00:42:50,240 --> 00:43:00,400
of September. A lot of last year couple
got a few not a lot or two put on

544
00:42:58,800 --> 00:43:04,640
depreciation schedules and we have to
update your

545
00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:09,839
schedule.
That's not just you got to get through

546
00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:13,119
all the fun in the weird area of
governmental accounting. You got to run

547
00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:16,720
all your budgets based on like cash
flow.

548
00:43:14,560 --> 00:43:20,480
Like I'm got business and here's my cash
in and my cash out. We're paying taxes

549
00:43:18,800 --> 00:43:24,000
at our business. That's all we pay taxes
on. We don't want to pay taxes on money

550
00:43:22,319 --> 00:43:28,400
that somebody owes us but hadn't paid
yet, right? So, you run your budgets

551
00:43:26,400 --> 00:43:32,480
essentially that way. Not exactly in
government, but it's kind of closer to

552
00:43:30,319 --> 00:43:37,040
that. And then we have to come in and do
some in stuff on the governmental

553
00:43:34,720 --> 00:43:41,200
general fund side to come in and
essentially

554
00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:46,000
convert it over to where you got balance
sheets at the end that look more like it

555
00:43:43,040 --> 00:43:48,960
was running a business. The water a
little different simpler approach in

556
00:43:47,520 --> 00:43:53,839
that regard. It's all treated like a
business from very beginning. It's all

557
00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:57,680
adjusted and organized and set up that
way. And then you throw yours in there

558
00:43:56,160 --> 00:44:00,880
and you got two different entities with
two different federal ID numbers and the

559
00:43:59,200 --> 00:44:07,119
state of Alabama retirement system has
all your stuff merged into one

560
00:44:03,680 --> 00:44:10,640
retirement account which is a little bit
mindblowing to me because I don't know I

561
00:44:08,800 --> 00:44:14,319
don't know how that how they managed to
do that. That's how they got it. So that

562
00:44:12,319 --> 00:44:18,880
makes you
bounce between the

563
00:44:16,079 --> 00:44:21,119
with your retirement actuarial
but in the past we

564
00:44:20,240 --> 00:44:25,359
there is no fund
we barred from one to the other and for

565
00:44:23,760 --> 00:44:30,640
the niche now we're two entities and
that should have never happened either

566
00:44:28,079 --> 00:44:34,079
well I think what's part of what happens
and I've got this and we we're working

567
00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:38,640
on some stuff today trying to actually
help with cleaning up some balances and

568
00:44:36,560 --> 00:44:41,920
get some things paid supposed to be paid
because Miss Rebecca doesn't she's still

569
00:44:40,800 --> 00:44:45,040
learning she doesn't know everything
supposed to be

570
00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:50,079
so you know there's a balance on the
books from two years ago. Some of the

571
00:44:47,040 --> 00:44:54,560
stuff owes between the two. Well,
utility owes the general fund some

572
00:44:52,240 --> 00:44:59,200
money, right? So, we're kind of figuring
out working on Tracy's working on the

573
00:44:56,800 --> 00:45:03,280
exact numbers. It'll be a perfect
opportunity to wipe out that money. So,

574
00:45:01,280 --> 00:45:06,640
back between the two, it allow you to do
that. Clean your books up a little bit

575
00:45:04,880 --> 00:45:09,640
more, which that needs to be done. The
simp

576
00:45:15,200 --> 00:45:23,760
I did go back. By the way, you asked,
one of you asked a question about

577
00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:28,040
a couple times.
I talked to the state exam.

578
00:45:28,800 --> 00:45:37,520
She said contemplates that at all.
Although, Miss Trace, there is a state

579
00:45:35,920 --> 00:45:41,839
law about submitting the retirement
plans.

580
00:45:39,760 --> 00:45:46,000
So, just make sure that you sent in on a
regular basis. Okay. Um, I'm sure it

581
00:45:44,480 --> 00:45:50,240
will. It won't be a problem. But I mean,
there's it goes in effect October 1st.

582
00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:55,520
They got some tighter rules from the
state level.

583
00:45:52,960 --> 00:46:00,240
They paid it all in. It's not It's not
that it's not been paid in, but

584
00:45:57,680 --> 00:46:04,720
they're they're raising the scrutiny on
whether you're getting that money sent

585
00:46:01,760 --> 00:46:10,960
into the RSA.
That's a statewide deal. Not everyone.

586
00:46:08,160 --> 00:46:14,319
Okay. Heaven forbid something they
shouldn't have here. Somebody taking

587
00:46:12,720 --> 00:46:17,319
some money on something they really
shouldn't

588
00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:26,560
somebody
you know.

589
00:46:25,040 --> 00:46:32,560
Yes ma'am.
In my opinion

590
00:46:29,119 --> 00:46:36,880
getting the rescue money the money was
terrible.

591
00:46:34,720 --> 00:46:41,920
We were doing better when we raised the
1% and then the city started living

592
00:46:39,760 --> 00:46:47,839
above their means. So that's where we
are now. Isn't that right? You have got

593
00:46:44,319 --> 00:46:53,200
to it's no more rescue money. I bet
money is gone.

594
00:46:51,200 --> 00:46:58,319
On a bigger picture exactly right. I bet
I bet you one out I bet you one out of

595
00:46:55,440 --> 00:47:01,599
three or four I'm working with are
either some level of hey I got to

596
00:47:00,079 --> 00:47:05,520
tighten up or they're actually in a
really pretty right now.

597
00:47:05,040 --> 00:47:08,880
money.
Yeah, that's right. That's what we said

598
00:47:07,520 --> 00:47:11,880
last time. We're living beyond our
means.

599
00:47:13,280 --> 00:47:20,720
You know what that means? You go spend
money on this project or that project,

600
00:47:18,079 --> 00:47:24,720
pay an engineer, you got side costs.
It's always any grants you got, you got

601
00:47:22,560 --> 00:47:28,520
out of pocket cost. So, there's always
something you're having to pay.

602
00:47:28,720 --> 00:47:39,400
and and the sales tax and licenses this
past year.

603
00:47:33,839 --> 00:47:39,400
I've seen several that were down a lot

604
00:47:39,599 --> 00:47:46,760
and
supplies gas and that

605
00:47:47,599 --> 00:47:52,200
you add all that on top of everything
else.

606
00:47:55,440 --> 00:48:01,040
We'll get through it. We'll get through
it.

607
00:47:59,359 --> 00:48:07,280
So
in our next

608
00:48:03,599 --> 00:48:12,000
in our audience, I mean something about
just took note.

609
00:48:10,480 --> 00:48:18,079
We have bonding company that we have to
report to how much money we got in our

610
00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:22,000
savings. Right.
If we don't have that money, I know we

611
00:48:20,400 --> 00:48:27,359
have to report to them, but when do we
have to report to

612
00:48:24,720 --> 00:48:31,760
you're already the water board's already
behind on they know about it. They

613
00:48:29,599 --> 00:48:35,359
notify us and we typically respond back,
tell them it's in the process and tell

614
00:48:33,680 --> 00:48:39,680
them where we're at and you know as long
as you communicate there work with you

615
00:48:37,520 --> 00:48:45,520
pretty good but
our financial statement is already you

616
00:48:42,480 --> 00:48:48,720
know need to be done
as I work through the statements over

617
00:48:47,040 --> 00:48:54,640
the next month I mean the water
department we it rolls into we do roll

618
00:48:51,119 --> 00:48:58,960
in there it's kind of a joint deal so at
the end of the report when they get the

619
00:48:56,559 --> 00:49:03,440
report they kind of say
got a separate statement feed into that

620
00:49:01,599 --> 00:49:06,920
is just for the water.
Bank of New York.

621
00:49:09,920 --> 00:49:16,559
Which one's the cities?
You have whatever. So, whoever's holding

622
00:49:14,800 --> 00:49:21,440
city, they get it. They're looking at
what their financials are. Utility

623
00:49:19,280 --> 00:49:24,640
side's always most difficult because
they have to meet debt service limits

624
00:49:23,359 --> 00:49:28,720
and if they don't meet them,
they would have certain percentage.

625
00:49:26,400 --> 00:49:33,839
Yeah. have a certain percent of income
available to pay for debt. And if they

626
00:49:30,960 --> 00:49:37,880
don't have it, they follow up.
They'll tell you to increase your rates.

627
00:49:38,559 --> 00:49:46,880
They'll be pretty quick about responding
to that.

628
00:49:42,720 --> 00:49:52,440
Well, we got water. We got your fans.
Yeah, we'll get we'll get to the water.

629
00:49:49,119 --> 00:49:52,440
We'll get there.

630
00:49:55,440 --> 00:50:04,160
We got The council here is not a
day-to-day operation. They don't sign

631
00:49:59,680 --> 00:50:08,480
checks. They don't write checks.
Let know that this council has been one

632
00:50:06,400 --> 00:50:13,200
of the best council I've been on by
things. And just a lot of things been

633
00:50:10,559 --> 00:50:18,319
blocked with micromanagement and some
council get quit saying the same some

634
00:50:16,319 --> 00:50:24,319
but they're I keep telling them they got
to do their job. They're responsible for

635
00:50:21,440 --> 00:50:29,280
the taxpayers money in their district.
That is what they're here for. And they

636
00:50:26,400 --> 00:50:35,200
have done a fantastic job. They don't
have what they have, but they get and I

637
00:50:32,160 --> 00:50:39,839
kept telling what I told you. We're not
getting what we're supposed to get to

638
00:50:36,960 --> 00:50:46,559
balance our budget just in case
we get over our budget. We need to

639
00:50:42,480 --> 00:50:51,359
adjust and we get I know it. I know what
it's supposed to look like. I've seen it

640
00:50:48,319 --> 00:50:55,920
too many times. So they have they are
not responsible for any of this. They

641
00:50:53,680 --> 00:51:00,079
fantastic job of digging and I'm so glad
they and I tell them don't stop digging.

642
00:50:58,400 --> 00:51:05,280
Keep digging because you are responsible
for your constituents in your district.

643
00:51:03,520 --> 00:51:09,760
That's why they put you here to watch
over the money to make sure that it is

644
00:51:08,400 --> 00:51:15,520
running right and make sure that they
don't that their money is spent

645
00:51:12,000 --> 00:51:20,559
especially for the citizen not being
blow kind of like

646
00:51:18,880 --> 00:51:24,160
if it's not done right let's stop it
right now. Let's adjust this budget.

647
00:51:22,480 --> 00:51:28,960
This is just that budget to make sure
that the city is running right.

648
00:51:25,520 --> 00:51:32,680
Well, the city I'm say this
in the city's defense.

649
00:51:34,720 --> 00:51:42,119
You'd like to have a balance sheet P&L
coming out that software

650
00:51:43,680 --> 00:51:54,480
that largely
hasn't been possible to give you an

651
00:51:51,920 --> 00:52:00,880
appropriate looking financial statement
like that

652
00:51:57,119 --> 00:52:07,359
you check registers or or bank balances
or whatever. I mean that's something,

653
00:52:03,920 --> 00:52:12,160
but you need monthly. In other words,
your clerk should reconcile the banks

654
00:52:08,800 --> 00:52:19,599
every month and you print a balance
sheet and a budget income statement and

655
00:52:14,480 --> 00:52:23,359
it it's there. It should be there and
well, if you've got things that

656
00:52:21,280 --> 00:52:27,520
I'm kind of st I say I'm kind of stunned
at how some of this stuff is more

657
00:52:25,920 --> 00:52:31,599
difficult than it should be where I'm
going back and I'm seeing her entering

658
00:52:29,280 --> 00:52:34,640
transactions. I got to upload them. I
got to all this stupid stuff. And then I

659
00:52:33,200 --> 00:52:38,480
got to go over here and I got to go post
it and I got to go run a posting journal

660
00:52:36,880 --> 00:52:40,880
before it ever uploads the ledger and
all that kind of stuff. And I'm just

661
00:52:39,520 --> 00:52:44,000
sitting there thinking, "Okay, this is
like 1995 all over again."

662
00:52:43,119 --> 00:52:48,559
Yeah.
If you got $100,000,00

663
00:52:46,800 --> 00:52:51,920
you got $100,000 of bills that hadn't
been paid that that should have been

664
00:52:50,079 --> 00:52:54,960
paid. And it's hard it's hard to know
what you got to spend to go out here and

665
00:52:53,599 --> 00:52:57,599
say we're gonna we're gonna add on the
police station. We're we're going to buy

666
00:52:56,240 --> 00:53:02,000
a dump truck. We're going to do this
that. So that's, you know, if we don't

667
00:53:00,240 --> 00:53:05,599
get the the data,
the correct data, updated data, it's

668
00:53:04,079 --> 00:53:10,079
hard for us to sit up here as a council
and vote and say, "Let's go do this.

669
00:53:07,680 --> 00:53:14,200
Let's improve the city by doing this
because you don't know what you got to

670
00:53:11,200 --> 00:53:14,200
spend."

671
00:53:15,200 --> 00:53:19,240
I don't think any of you got that.

672
00:53:19,359 --> 00:53:29,160
You just didn't get it.
talk about all nauseium about

673
00:53:25,200 --> 00:53:29,160
what happened and what we did.

674
00:53:35,839 --> 00:53:43,119
All right.
Good. All right. I'll be When's the

675
00:53:39,359 --> 00:53:48,640
first meeting in August, Miss Trace?
First Tuesday. Okay.

676
00:53:47,040 --> 00:53:52,040
The 5th. August the 5th.
5th. Okay.

677
00:53:55,520 --> 00:53:58,760
think about

678
00:54:00,480 --> 00:54:03,480
water.

679
00:54:04,240 --> 00:54:07,640
It's first Monday.

680
00:54:16,079 --> 00:54:19,079
July

681
00:54:19,119 --> 00:54:22,839
second, not

682
00:54:26,559 --> 00:54:32,520
the day before. It's the day before the
next council

683
00:54:29,520 --> 00:54:32,520
meeting.

684
00:54:33,680 --> 00:54:35,680
All

685
00:54:36,880 --> 00:54:40,920
right. Main Street.

686
00:54:53,839 --> 00:54:57,400
Hey.
Hello.

687
00:54:59,599 --> 00:55:04,640
I've been looking forward to it all
week.

688
00:55:03,440 --> 00:55:08,359
Just put a stack right here in case
nobody else wants some.

689
00:55:12,640 --> 00:55:23,520
All right. So, as you know, part of my
um as a part of being a designated

690
00:55:19,520 --> 00:55:28,480
matrix city, we have to keep track of um
several reinvestment statistics through

691
00:55:25,359 --> 00:55:34,640
or data throughout the the year. Um
those include job jobs that in our main

692
00:55:32,480 --> 00:55:38,720
street district, new and closed
businesses, volunteer hours, public

693
00:55:37,280 --> 00:55:43,599
improvements, public investment, and
private investments. And um I just like

694
00:55:41,920 --> 00:55:49,640
to give it to you guys just so you guys
know what we're doing. I know you guys

695
00:55:45,200 --> 00:55:49,640
are going to give a little update every

696
00:56:00,240 --> 00:56:04,440
private investment 68,87

697
00:56:04,960 --> 00:56:14,400
that was um our grants that private
investments that people put in for

698
00:56:11,680 --> 00:56:19,200
grants this past quarter and I'm happy
to say that grant has finished out um

699
00:56:18,000 --> 00:56:24,559
and I'll get a little bit more about
that in a minute but for that quarter

700
00:56:21,119 --> 00:56:28,079
that 68,000 is how much
property owners invest into their

701
00:56:25,920 --> 00:56:32,960
businesses to improve their businesses
for for the area public investment is

702
00:56:31,280 --> 00:56:37,760
private or public money on private
property. So that 18,400 is just the

703
00:56:36,160 --> 00:56:44,000
rest of the facade grants that were paid
out this quarter um to those applicants

704
00:56:42,559 --> 00:56:47,920
that we had. That's not money that you
know was in our account. It was just

705
00:56:45,200 --> 00:56:53,200
money that got paid back to reimburse
them for the grants. Everybody had a

706
00:56:50,880 --> 00:56:57,040
chance to get up 2500.
And then I put public improvements on

707
00:56:54,799 --> 00:57:00,960
here this year or this this quarter just
to show because there's a couple grants

708
00:56:59,359 --> 00:57:05,040
and they're like
That's public money on public property.

709
00:57:02,960 --> 00:57:08,799
I work with the county and the city and
you know Larry and Pete to get

710
00:57:06,640 --> 00:57:14,799
information every quarter about how much
money you know the police station

711
00:57:10,480 --> 00:57:20,079
improvements are on here that 135 number
just goes to show it shows Main Street

712
00:57:16,559 --> 00:57:23,520
Alabama and Main Street America that you
know the community is still putting in

713
00:57:21,680 --> 00:57:27,680
money to their buildings in our district
to improve it. Whether or not, you know,

714
00:57:25,760 --> 00:57:30,880
the police station getting fixed up
doesn't really affect this, but we can,

715
00:57:29,760 --> 00:57:36,319
you know, shows that you guys are
interested in fixing up the properties

716
00:57:32,559 --> 00:57:41,200
for for people that may come here.
Yeah. And then so in the back I'll just

717
00:57:38,160 --> 00:57:45,520
give a little update here. I'm excited
to announce that our first grant or just

718
00:57:43,599 --> 00:57:50,640
our first grant in general, our grant
first program finished this quarter and

719
00:57:48,160 --> 00:57:56,720
a grant that started out with $25,000
compounded into $109,000 worth of

720
00:57:54,240 --> 00:58:01,119
investment into 10 properties up here.
Those properties are listed down below.

721
00:57:59,040 --> 00:58:07,000
Really exciting stuff. Just
you say 109,000.

722
00:58:02,720 --> 00:58:07,000
Yeah. 109 541.

723
00:58:08,640 --> 00:58:15,720
is broken up into four committees that
you have to have significre

724
00:58:35,680 --> 00:58:43,599
as well. I know Janice has
as well just people noticing it to stop

725
00:58:40,880 --> 00:58:47,839
by. Um as youall know this quarter we
got um we achieved Main Street America

726
00:58:46,160 --> 00:58:53,440
accreditation which is a huge deal. It's
a big visibility boost booster for our

727
00:58:50,319 --> 00:58:56,720
city and for our main community. Um that
will help us with more grant

728
00:58:55,040 --> 00:59:00,559
opportunities and stuff. That's actually
something I've been working on this past

729
00:58:58,799 --> 00:59:05,839
week is looking at all the grant
opportunities they've been sending us

730
00:59:01,920 --> 00:59:10,000
now that we're eligible for
those just ones that they may send out

731
00:59:08,480 --> 00:59:15,359
to people that are credited to showing
that we have a little bit more stuff

732
00:59:12,079 --> 00:59:19,839
under our belt and more willingness to
be able to implement these grants. They

733
00:59:17,280 --> 00:59:26,559
were really impressed with our grant and
our um business that I'll get to in a

734
00:59:23,280 --> 00:59:30,559
second. Um and then this as well we got
sent to two conferences and that's a

735
00:59:28,319 --> 00:59:34,880
part of our main street as well our main
street designation we have to go to

736
00:59:32,720 --> 00:59:39,839
conferences keep up these numbers that's
why we do that we're still working on

737
00:59:37,119 --> 00:59:45,359
the zoning hopefully that'll be in front
of y'all next time we meet to get that

738
00:59:41,760 --> 00:59:50,160
officially approved so that'll help
to encourage businesses people opening

739
00:59:48,240 --> 00:59:55,280
up here
and then as you know we had the river

740
00:59:52,319 --> 01:00:01,680
this year the grant that we closed out
this past week was our broad ideas pitch

741
00:59:58,559 --> 01:00:05,440
competition grant. That one was um
funded through Main Street America or

742
01:00:03,280 --> 01:00:08,640
Main Street Alabama and the Small
Business Administration. That's the

743
01:00:06,960 --> 01:00:14,480
business pitch competition that we had
that distributed $10,000 total $10,000

744
01:00:12,400 --> 01:00:18,880
to I think it's five or six different
businesses for marketing, new inventory,

745
01:00:17,200 --> 01:00:24,400
equipment,
computers, and software upgrades. and

746
01:00:21,920 --> 01:00:30,480
they're listed down here below.
JS was able to get inventory for their

747
01:00:28,480 --> 01:00:33,599
pharmacy area
was able to get a new computer. They've

748
01:00:31,839 --> 01:00:38,160
seen a lot more customers here lately.
Their business is growing and we were

749
01:00:36,240 --> 01:00:42,079
able to help them out with new software
upgrades and a new computer for their

750
01:00:39,599 --> 01:00:46,880
business. City Cafe was able to to
benefit by getting a registered software

751
01:00:44,400 --> 01:00:52,960
upgrades. Law office was able to get
some signage which I think is the for

752
01:00:51,280 --> 01:00:58,559
all their facade work that they just put
in and topline equipment and flowers and

753
01:00:55,680 --> 01:01:00,559
gifts got signage. So that was another
$10,000.

754
01:00:59,599 --> 01:01:03,559
That looks good.
Yes.

755
01:01:03,599 --> 01:01:11,359
into the area to help support our small
businesses here and hopefully increase

756
01:01:08,559 --> 01:01:15,760
our tax base. And then we were able to
welcome Chiropractic. They hopefully

757
01:01:13,760 --> 01:01:21,280
will be open their doors in the next
couple weeks and we'll have a

758
01:01:19,119 --> 01:01:25,200
Monday. July 7th.
One day,

759
01:01:22,160 --> 01:01:28,559
possibly July 7th. We'll send out some
information about that. We want to

760
01:01:26,640 --> 01:01:33,280
celebrate that. They've really put in a
lot of work to not just get the building

761
01:01:31,040 --> 01:01:38,960
ready, but take care of it. They
restored the original door knob that's

762
01:01:35,599 --> 01:01:42,960
on the door and woodworking. They're
really taking their time to make sure

763
01:01:41,440 --> 01:01:47,839
it's historically accurate and taken
care of for generations, which I think

764
01:01:46,160 --> 01:01:51,760
is very important. We've been working
closely with them. Let me know if you

765
01:01:49,920 --> 01:01:56,160
have any questions about this, but this
is just an overview of some of the

766
01:01:53,200 --> 01:01:59,359
things that we've done this last
quarter.

767
01:01:57,200 --> 01:02:04,319
I got a question. Tracy, I know we made
a commitment to Main Street to pay pay

768
01:02:01,520 --> 01:02:07,280
our donation every quarter. Have we have
we been able to pay that donation to

769
01:02:06,880 --> 01:02:12,240
Main Street?
I think she's up to date right now.

770
01:02:08,880 --> 01:02:15,880
I haven't sent the invoice for July
through September yet.

771
01:02:16,079 --> 01:02:22,319
But yeah, this is another reason why I
wanted to just to thank you all for your

772
01:02:20,319 --> 01:02:28,200
continued support, but we have not
received our our check for this quarter

773
01:02:24,799 --> 01:02:28,200
yet, but I also

774
01:02:35,180 --> 01:02:40,640
[Music]
today and we've we've gotten about

775
01:02:38,799 --> 01:02:44,559
$80,000 worth of grant since I've been
here. Um, and I think that's something

776
01:02:42,880 --> 01:02:49,359
to celebrate about. We've definitely
seen the impact so far. We're just at

777
01:02:46,960 --> 01:02:53,359
the beginning and Um, we're going to
continue to grow, continue to look out

778
01:02:51,760 --> 01:02:59,280
for new businesses to encourage them to
open up and fix up the buildings up here

779
01:02:55,680 --> 01:03:03,559
so that we can have people from other
places, but also people that live here.

780
01:03:12,559 --> 01:03:17,799
No, that's actually I think against our
ordinances.

781
01:03:18,960 --> 01:03:22,480
Thank you, Jerry.
Yeah, thank you. Thank you'all for all

782
01:03:20,880 --> 01:03:29,119
your support and let me talk about that.
Um, and then here on the bottom, that's

783
01:03:25,359 --> 01:03:32,640
just since 2023. Um, some of the
improvements that we've had just so you

784
01:03:30,400 --> 01:03:36,559
guys can see our our impact over the
past three years now as well.

785
01:03:34,880 --> 01:03:40,000
Good deal.
Hey, thank you.

786
01:03:39,440 --> 01:03:44,480
Thank you,
We got a couple of other businesses on

787
01:03:42,000 --> 01:03:50,160
the line, too. just to be positive. Um,
still talking to two that I know of.

788
01:03:46,799 --> 01:03:53,359
Trying to find a hole for them, a place.
So, good things come. Got to stay

789
01:03:52,640 --> 01:03:54,720
positive.
Absolutely.

790
01:03:53,920 --> 01:03:57,599
Keep moving forward.
We just need places for them to go. So,

791
01:03:56,480 --> 01:04:00,960
that's why we're, you know, urging
property owners that do have vacant

792
01:03:59,200 --> 01:04:04,720
buildings to to fix them up so that they
we can get them in there because um I

793
01:04:03,200 --> 01:04:09,039
know I have people knocking on my door
and calling me a couple times a week

794
01:04:07,280 --> 01:04:12,799
asking, "Hey, is this property available
or I would love to open up this kind of

795
01:04:10,559 --> 01:04:16,319
business. How can I do that?"
something that we're excited to have

796
01:04:14,799 --> 01:04:18,960
people actually interested in opening up
businesses here.

797
01:04:17,119 --> 01:04:24,200
I talked to one this week about
something on 82 that they're real

798
01:04:20,799 --> 01:04:24,200
positive in

799
01:04:24,799 --> 01:04:27,799
that

800
01:04:28,000 --> 01:04:33,760
you know barbecue opening up but you
know that's not main or in our main

801
01:04:31,680 --> 01:04:38,480
street district but it's still in the
area and I think growth for anywhere in

802
01:04:36,400 --> 01:04:45,599
the county or even just the city is grow
for us as well that's a get them to

803
01:04:43,839 --> 01:04:49,280
give a pitch for herds. I've been eating
herds for a long time. I've been driving

804
01:04:47,119 --> 01:04:54,000
to Maplesville for a long time to get
hurts. That is a good meal.

805
01:04:53,839 --> 01:04:55,119
And
good people, too.

806
01:04:54,799 --> 01:05:01,880
Yes.
Yes.

807
01:04:57,680 --> 01:05:01,880
Roman is a super guy

808
01:05:01,920 --> 01:05:07,039
and commit and committed to being a good
community service.

809
01:05:04,880 --> 01:05:12,400
Yes, he is.
Thank you so much for your for your

810
01:05:08,559 --> 01:05:12,400
support for letting me

811
01:05:14,559 --> 01:05:19,240
Y police chiefs on vacation

812
01:05:21,680 --> 01:05:27,000
what we do about the
gas.

813
01:05:28,160 --> 01:05:35,720
Hey, take a look at that picture I sent
out. That's inside of where the old fire

814
01:05:32,720 --> 01:05:35,720
station

815
01:05:36,160 --> 01:05:39,480
got fix.

816
01:05:40,240 --> 01:05:45,680
with some stairs.
That's the ceiling above the shower.

817
01:05:44,160 --> 01:05:47,440
Yeah, Larry.
The picture,

818
01:05:46,799 --> 01:05:51,640
correct?
Yeah, we got we got,

819
01:05:55,920 --> 01:06:03,920
you know, we talked about all going
to do that.

820
01:06:01,440 --> 01:06:10,880
Just not trying to hold that up. I mean,
that's obviously got to be

821
01:06:07,520 --> 01:06:10,880
your best date.

822
01:06:15,039 --> 01:06:21,520
next week.
I guess people

823
01:06:20,720 --> 01:06:24,079
next week.
Yeah,

824
01:06:22,160 --> 01:06:30,440
I got two days.
We got We got bids on the roof of your

825
01:06:27,440 --> 01:06:30,440
place.

826
01:06:34,480 --> 01:06:37,480
Seven.

827
01:06:40,640 --> 01:06:47,839
Monday.
Yeah. Walk off

828
01:06:44,319 --> 01:06:50,839
and hamburgers and hot dogs.
Monday.

829
01:06:59,039 --> 01:07:01,520
10:00.

830
01:07:04,160 --> 01:07:10,240
Mike, what about the uh I know we had
some credit cards that were that were

831
01:07:07,839 --> 01:07:12,960
cut off, frozen. Are we still got those
frozen because of the the budget crunch

832
01:07:12,079 --> 01:07:18,079
we're in and everything?
Yeah, everybody's on moratorium extra

833
01:07:16,079 --> 01:07:24,920
stuff. Like I said, police have
volunteered to uh flip their overtime.

834
01:07:21,920 --> 01:07:24,920
So,

835
01:07:38,480 --> 01:07:44,119
activities.
Absolutely.

836
01:07:40,240 --> 01:07:44,119
No travel, you know.

837
01:07:45,280 --> 01:07:52,039
You can cash your checks now.
Did you get your check?

838
01:07:54,640 --> 01:07:58,200
Yours on my desk.

839
01:08:03,440 --> 01:08:09,200
I'm picking at you.
What you get for being

840
01:08:07,359 --> 01:08:13,680
Hey, I ain't holding another week.
Mike says we had money.

841
01:08:11,520 --> 01:08:18,799
We got her.
Tracy, didn't you tell me I I didn't

842
01:08:16,000 --> 01:08:20,960
have to cash it, but I still get $10.99.
Yes.

843
01:08:29,040 --> 01:08:36,040
Main Street's looking for donations.
There you go.

844
01:08:32,000 --> 01:08:36,040
That's a way to get a plug in

845
01:08:40,239 --> 01:08:43,400
our treasur.

846
01:08:44,000 --> 01:08:49,279
Has no money straight. You better ask
for donations.

847
01:08:47,520 --> 01:08:54,719
We're working on it.
That's something I didn't mention that I

848
01:08:51,040 --> 01:08:58,560
forgot. But we um have been working
diligently to increase our partnerships

849
01:08:56,880 --> 01:09:03,799
with other local businesses and
industries and both in this county and

850
01:09:00,799 --> 01:09:03,799
outside

851
01:09:11,359 --> 01:09:17,040
celebration on green on 12th.
July 12th

852
01:09:15,040 --> 01:09:20,560
vendor spots available if anybody wants
to

853
01:09:18,640 --> 01:09:25,159
campaign.
Let's not let's not leave this message

854
01:09:22,000 --> 01:09:25,159
this meeting.

855
01:09:29,040 --> 01:09:34,719
Do we have
we have to do the fireworks?

856
01:09:33,359 --> 01:09:36,880
Yes.
We will. Yes.

857
01:09:35,679 --> 01:09:41,759
How much?
Uh 3500.

858
01:09:40,400 --> 01:09:46,359
It's split four ways.
We didn't have to make no motion or

859
01:09:43,359 --> 01:09:46,359
nothing.

860
01:09:54,480 --> 01:10:00,440
It's if it's in the budget, you won't
have to because you've already

861
01:10:03,920 --> 01:10:10,400
pass.
I know, but

862
01:10:07,920 --> 01:10:16,560
Oh, there's money in the budget.
I mean, y'all saying

863
01:10:13,520 --> 01:10:22,440
I, you know, we could fix the fire
station today, you know, stuff like

864
01:10:18,880 --> 01:10:22,440
that. We could pay.

865
01:10:22,880 --> 01:10:29,520
I think when we approved that budget,
there was something in there about I

866
01:10:28,239 --> 01:10:32,679
honestly think there was something in
there about

867
01:10:33,120 --> 01:10:39,239
it was in there, but I just wanted to
voted on it. I mean,

868
01:10:36,239 --> 01:10:39,239
yeah.

869
01:10:42,239 --> 01:10:47,880
Yeah. When you when you when you
authorize the budget, you better

870
01:10:50,000 --> 01:10:55,280
wish we was going to do it anyway.
Good.

871
01:10:53,199 --> 01:10:58,400
Even though
cuz I'll stand I'll stand on that one

872
01:10:57,360 --> 01:11:01,280
now. That's
we ain't got enough.

873
01:10:59,360 --> 01:11:08,480
Y'all got me out of the library, but I'm
gonna stand there for him.

874
01:11:04,239 --> 01:11:11,560
That's what we Thank you for that.
Come out.

875
01:11:18,480 --> 01:11:21,880
I didn't know

876
01:11:25,040 --> 01:11:28,199
the fireworks.

877
01:11:40,560 --> 01:11:48,840
I it might I I'll squeeze it out of
somewhere.

878
01:11:45,440 --> 01:11:48,840
Anybody else?

879
01:11:52,159 --> 01:11:59,520
Next meeting July 15th
water board the night before.

880
01:11:57,040 --> 01:12:04,480
Motion
motion second

881
01:12:02,000 --> 01:12:07,719
question. in favor.
Thank you.

882
01:12:17,600 --> 01:12:25,199
So the 3500
is our fourth

883
01:12:21,679 --> 01:12:30,640
or is the 3500?
No, that's our fourth.

884
01:12:28,800 --> 01:12:35,239
It's 14.
We

885
01:12:32,239 --> 01:12:35,239
ma'am,00

886
01:12:35,360 --> 01:12:44,480
who pays the other
um is split city of Bren us

887
01:12:42,159 --> 01:12:51,320
hospital and I'm not sure about the
fourth one but there

888
01:12:47,520 --> 01:12:51,320
may I don't