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Please stand for the pledge.

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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the

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republic for which it stands, one nation
under God, indivisible, with liberty and

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justice for all.
Councilmember Brent, could you give us

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prayer, please? Bow heads, please.
Heavenly Father, we thank you for this

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day, the blessings of this day, and we
thank you for the blessings you bestow

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upon our city and and hopefully it leads
continue. And Lord, we ask for your

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wisdom and guidance as we do the work of
the city as we

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come from the time of Easter, may we
always remember even throughout the year

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the sacrifice that you gave with your
son Christ so we could have everlasting

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life.
And we remember that completely through

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the year. In Christ's name we pray.
Amen.

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» Ms. Lewis, could I get a roll call?
Green?

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Patrick?
>> Yeah.

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Gibson? Here. Fox?
>> Here.

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Allen? Here. Brent? Here. Simmons? Here.

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All good. Adoption of the agenda,
everybody had a chance to look over it.

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If so, I need a motion and a second.
I move to adopt the agenda.

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Second, Gibson.
All in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed?

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Approve or correct work session minutes
of March 11th, 2026, work session

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minutes of March 16th, 2026, and regular
session minutes of March 17th, 2026 and

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special session minutes of March 30th,
2026.

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Everybody's had a chance to look over
that. I need a motion and a second.

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Make a motion to accept, Your Honor.
Second, Patrick. All in favor? Aye. Aye.

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Any opposed? Aye.
Moving on down to committee reports.

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First up, we have community
community development and code

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committee. That's council members Allen
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Go ahead.
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» [clears throat]
>> I'm sorry. I'm just now

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getting a chance to see this. Good
night.

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I'm just now seeing it. It was obviously
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Um looks like a total of 31
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requests for permits.
Am I not reading that right?

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Am I?
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Uh 31 issued. Uh
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We collected $770
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So, you got That's it.
Thank you, Mr. Allen. Mr. Simmons, do

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you have any other? No, sir. No report.
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public safety committee. That's council
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Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I have the monthly
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February 24th to March 30th.
The March fire department responded to

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five fires in the city, one fire in the
county.

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We responded to nine hazardous
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county.
We responded to 12 medical calls for the

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city and two for the county.
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in the city and three in the county.
We responded to 16 public service calls

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in the city and one in the county.
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city, a total of 71 calls.
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annual report for the fire department
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March of fire department responded to 42
fire calls in the city, 34 in the

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county.
We responded to one overpressure rupture

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explosion,
overheat non-fire. We responded to two

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rescue medical calls for for the city,
six for the county. We responded to 35

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hazardous conditions in the city and two
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We responded to 104 service calls in the
city and six in the county.

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We responded to 68 good intent calls in
the city and nine in the county.

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We responded to
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the county.
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657.
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aid given eight times, casualties uh
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individual uh injuries
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zero.
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saved 2 million 266,830.

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That would be the end of my report.
Thank you, Councilman Gibson.

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Next up, we have Municipal Services and
Personnel Committee. That's Councilman

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Brent and Green.
Uh yes, Your Honor. First, we have the

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stormwater tip for the month.
And that is properly dispose of all

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rubbish and trash
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It will eventually end up in the closest
ditch with which would either that or

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the residue will end up in our ponds,
lakes, streams. So,

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try to keep that picked up cuz where
water storm water flows, everything

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goes.
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know, later on the meeting we have our
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surfacing program
um bids. Randy Ann will be going through

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those.
Uh but those are an agenda item later

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on.
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to add to that?
No, not at this time. Okay. Thank you.

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Thank you, Council member Brent. Mr.
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Next up, we have property, finance,
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members Pappert and Fox. [snorts]
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the end of March is halfway through the
fiscal year. Uh revenues at 9.75

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million, expenditures 9.8.
Uh according to Ms. Klingner,

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everything's looking great. Um
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March, uh two grants were received. Uh
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for $80,000 approximately. And the
airport received a grant for

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approximately $200,000.

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That's all I have. Thank you, Mr.
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Good. Moving on down, we have city
administrator's report, Mr. Kerman.

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Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Couple updates uh
especially on on the LaPaz sinkhole from

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the last meeting. Uh we had the city
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away. Um
they had attempted a fix previously uh

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that was insufficient. Um Lamp Rynearson
actually had Randy's crews open that

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hole and create used a camera to create
a 3D scan of the collapsed box and the

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other junction boxes. If any of you have
seen the pictures that Randy has from

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under there, there's a very unusual um
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conglomeration of different size and
different types of pipes coming together

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in those boxes. Um what this model is
going to do is allow them to perfect the

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geometry and hopefully design a precast
structure, which is what they believe is

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the fix that's necessary in the in the
best way to protect the business that's

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so close to it uh that can be dropped in
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they're going to be on site. We are
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the geometry perfected on that 3D model.
Uh the issue with the precast is that um

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even under an expedited order, it could
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cast and deliver the structure to us. We
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as quickly as we can.
Uh there's a few other um

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issues that we'll need to talk to the
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um the work is too deep for local crews
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bid, which could also cause some delay.
So, I'll keep you updated as as we work

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on that. I I expect that we're going to
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probably the one after that as well on
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Um an update uh also on on Cotton Street
and Councilman Green had asked for some

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updates on the situation out there. Uh
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effort, had created some um of the
documents that detailed the parameters

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and the widths of the construction
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um but they had not sent those on to our
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Uh she has reviewed those and uh
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collecting signatures on those easements
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uh city attorney. I'm sorry, the
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» Yes,
also want to mention Eastwood. You know,

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we've got a big FEMA project over there
that we took out of the hands of one

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engineering firm a couple of years ago
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and sent that over to ESS. ESS is now
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in conjunction with the city engineer
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easements that are necessary for that
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However, and this is this is fairly
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funds. Two of the property owners have
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and then this is their right to do and
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be a little bit tricky
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flood plain, but
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there's an existing utility easement
already there. Both of those things kind

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of devalue the property so it can be
challenging to find comparables that the

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federal government will accept
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So, we're going to continue to work with
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get those secured. Along the lines of
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the tap granted Miami and College, all
of the easements are in but one

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and that one is just hung up in
corporate. We're told that it's

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forthcoming,
but their corporate office has been

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taking their time with it. We really
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Once those easements are here and
recorded, then the right of way at the

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state will clear them and issue the
notice to proceed for the actual

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construction to to begin on that on that
tap grant which is for sidewalks and

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improved crossing at the intersection.
And then just one mention since we've

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got some of our partners from MMU here
tonight, Uh did get an updated list of

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uh streets from the underground
utilities from Grant Piper today to

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complement any street work that we do in
the future and we appreciate their

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diligence sharing that information with
us. So, happy to answer any questions

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that you may have about these or any
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Mr. Chairman, one thing I know it it
hadn't been brought up for a while, but

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on College Street, um if you're heading
east going up the street at Miami and

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College, um no, I didn't Let me tell you
back. If you're heading west, don't

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forget about you know, they took out the
turning lane. Yes. To Have we got any

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update on that deal?
I When we When we brought the city

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engineer in to that part just to kind of
function as a review agent, um we we

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brought that up. It We're Again, we're
not certain that MoDOT is going to allow

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any additions to the scope of the grant,
but that doesn't mean that that work

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can't be still be completed by by the
city itself. So, uh more than likely uh

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what will happen based on that meeting
that we had between ESS and Lamp

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Rynearson and the city staff is that
assuming that there's um that MoDOT

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doesn't open the door to including that
um the issue with the turn lane and the

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and the signals and the funding, uh that
they will complete the grant

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requirements. ESS will complete the
grant requirements to MoDOT's

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expectations, and then Lamp Rynearson
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as as necessary. Um that's kind of the
plan now. We We should have a little bit

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more information uh soon. Right now,
we're really not getting any

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construction feedback because
right-of-way is still waiting for those

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easements. Okay. Thank you.
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» Mr. Chairman, the uh smokestack
property, I was out there last Monday.

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That's the last time I've been out
there. Has I mean, have they been Is

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that ready to go yet? Uh it's very, very
close. Um they're they're they're

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breaking concrete uh in a couple areas
now and working. I know the mayor's been

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out there a couple of times uh talking
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And um yeah, it looks better and better
every day. So, we're getting very close,

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but I don't think as of today that I
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Are those [snorts] improvements
satisfactory to the school board? Or the

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board, I guess. But, I mean,
are we headed in the direction where

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they'll they'll be satisfied?
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I think the discussion that the finance
committee had with Randy out there after

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their meeting um
were the the that they were trying to

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address that very issue.
Um and and yeah, I I think from the top,

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especially when you're standing up at
the school property, it looks Randy's

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crew did a great job. It looks a million
times better. From the bottom, we've

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still got that final um tier where the
loading dock was,

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uh and that's what he his crews are
chipping away at right now. So,

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um
I'd say, depending on where you're

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standing,
uh it looks more acceptable than it may,

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you know, if you're standing uh down the
hill by the ramp. So, but I think that's

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going to improve here very quickly uh as
he continues to remove that loading

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dock. Okay.
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Is that your report?
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So, go ahead, and then I'll ask you that
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Thanks, Mr. Chairman. Thank you. Um my
report was done by Mr. Pepper.

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I'm just kidding. Um
to answer your question about that, we

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did I've been out there talking to
Randy, um and it looks 100% better.

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And they're busting up all the footings,
all that stuff. I mean, he's actually

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making a lot of progress.
>> Okay. Um also, his crew went out and

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kind of started mowing around
the building and moved the pile. Um

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hopefully, our plans or whatever is to
get it where people can fish on the back

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side of it and get all of it cleaned up
around down through there.

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But, they have been working on it. It
looks it's starting to take shape. It's

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looking really good. So, probably what,
another

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couple days, a week.
They'll have it pretty much all done and

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then hopefully with that done, um
then we can kind of get the first phase

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or the first part of this contract done.
Yeah. Um and close Cuz when's the

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deadline? May 1st. May 1st or something.
May something. I think It's the 1st.

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So, that's kind of the goal and Good.
hats off to y'all cuz they really been

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hitting it hard.
It looks good. So, we're getting there.

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Good.

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Other than that,
that's my report. Okay, that's my

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report. You had a question. I was going
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No, it's okay. Okay.
Moving on.

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Uh next up, we have business from the
audience.

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It's limited 3 minutes per speaker. Any
person, resident, or non-resident

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wishing to address the council may
approach the microphone at this time,

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state their name, and their comments.
It's 3 minutes.

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Oops.

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Yes, my name is Richard Rodden.
My

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uh complaint is about the police
department.

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I have here
recently, I've had problems with noise

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complaints in my neighborhood.
I'd call

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an officer would show up.
>> [sighs and gasps]

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» I think the first one was badge 130.
He told me that this was at 3:00

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in the morning.

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He told me, "No, I'm not going to go
over across the road and go to that

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I'm not going to do my job. It's
basically what he told me.

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So, I had to sit there the rest of the
night after he left. Now, 10 minutes

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after he left, a car pulled up in front
of that house,

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and a person come out of that house, got
a car, and left.

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He didn't want to wake nobody up. He
didn't want to investigate.

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» [snorts]
>> The officer before that, badge 142.

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This was back when there was snow on the
ground. It was cold outside.

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He didn't want to do his job, either. He
told me, "No, I'm not going to go over

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there.
I'm not going to do that. I don't cuz

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when he pulled up, they turned the music
off. He says, "I don't hear no music.

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Until I hear music, I'm not going to do
nothing."

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So, you know,
what's the point in calling the police

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if the police aren't going to do their
job?

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Is my point.
What is a citizen supposed to do? A

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taxpayer?

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Is what I'd like to know.

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Just yesterday, I got a ticket for
driving my tractor, lawn tractor.

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Mind you, there was a couple protest
signs on it. I had come back from mowing

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a buddy's yard.

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On my way home, I decided I'm going to
circle the police department a few times

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and then I'm going to sit in front of
the police department for a short period

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of time,
then I'm going to go home.

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I sit there,
out comes an officer, badge 114,

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and writes me a ticket for driving my
lawn tractor. He's classifying it on the

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ticket as a motor vehicle.

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If you look underneath the Missouri law
statutes, it is listed underneath farm

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machinery.
>> Mr. Rodden, that's your 3 minutes. Mr.

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Hudson, would you Thank you. We'll talk
about this.

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Anyone else like to approach the mic at
this time?

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I'm Randy Duett. I'd like to see about
getting some 30-minute parking signs on

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the south side of the post office.
There's seven spots there. One's

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handicap and the other six are being
tied up 8:00 to 5:00 every day,

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Monday through Friday, by
I'm not sure who,

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but that that's so nobody of the 575
personal mailboxes in there, people have

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got to park on the far side of the
street,

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cross over, get their mail, cross back
across the street, and a lot of those

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are senior citizens.
And that's kind of an unsafe situation,

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I would think.
I think if we had the 30-minute signs

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there, there were some 10-minute signs
and 1-hour sign, but they've been

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removed.
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anybody can park there all day, I guess.
But I would think being the post office

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that they would want to
let their customers come in and get

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their mail on time
without worrying about trying to, you

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know, get hit across the street back and
forth.

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That's uh that's basically what I'd
have. I just think it'd be a safety

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issue there to go ahead and have that
done. 30-minute signs, I think, would uh

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would be sufficient for sure a person to
get in there and get out.

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Okay.
Thank you. Thank you, Mr. DeWitt. Thank

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you.

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Would that fall under

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Mr. Gibson. Yeah. Can you kind of do a
little bit of research on that? Yeah,

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absolutely. We'll look into that.
Thank you.

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Anyone else like to speak at this time?

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My name is Keith Zinn.
And I agree with Randy there. That is uh

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bad signs. You get elderly people trying
to get into the post office.

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And they just took the signs down. That
that just a free-for-all for them trying

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to get in. Elderly people is what I was
referring to.

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And
uh

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our former mayor, is that lawsuit
settled?

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I don't
There's not a lawsuit with the former

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mayor. It wasn't with them? No. Well, I
thought there was. No, sir.

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Huh. Okay. So, yes, it's settled.
Never was one. Never was one. Hm. Okay.

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Uh
how much does RTS pay the city for

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tearing up the streets?

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We don't collect anything from RTS for
their street or for their pick their

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truck usage.
Hm. Well, I

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got some pretty good information that's
$250,000.

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Uh well, if it is, I don't remember it
being in the contract. So.

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I said, "Well, I'd like somebody to look
at that because what I got is pretty

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reliable."
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he uh
I said, "My God, $250,000.

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Wow."
But, I could've misunderstood him, but I

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don't think so.
Thank you. We'll find out. Let's examine

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it and get back with you.
Drew,

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Dan, can y'all check into that, JD,
please?

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We'll get you an answer.
Yes, sir.

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» [clears throat]

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» Anyone else like to speak at this time?
>> [clears throat]

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» Moving on. Randy,

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moving up, the next one we have is uh
the mowing services.

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And what I have here
is uh

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it says on March 25th, 2026, bids were
opened for lawn mowing services at city

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office building, Martin Martin Community
Center, and Municipal Court in Marshall.

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Um there was only one bid that was
received.

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And that was with Quality Lawn Care.
That is $200 per mowing.

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Anybody got any questions about that? Is
that for mowing all three locations or

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$200 per location?
It's for all three locations.

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» Is this in line with the last year's?
Last year was $195 per mowing, so it's

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$5 increase per mowing.
Gas prices.

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» [laughter]
>> Amen. That's generally followed a $5

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increase annually.

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If everybody's okay with that,
um I'd ask for a motion in a second to

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approve quality lawn. I make a motion to
approve. Second.

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» Second, Alan. Ooh, he was
You got to speak up, Harold. You got to

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speak up. All
All in favor? Aye. Aye.

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Any opposed?

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Next up,
we have the lawn

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um, fertilization services.
This one here was on March 25th, 2026.

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Bids were opened for lawn fertilization
services at City Office Building, Martin

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Community Center.
Um, one bid was received as follows, and

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that was with Easy Green Professional
Turf Management.

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And that is an amount um, well, it's
recommended that we go with that one,

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but it's an amount of 1,440
bucks. Is that for a year or for the

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year?
>> That is for the year. Last year was

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1,350.

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If everybody's okay with that, I'd like
to ask for a motion and a second to

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approve that.
Move to approve.

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Second, Patrick.
All in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed?

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Next up, we have um,
oops.

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2026, that's a micro-surfacing
program.

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Brandy, do you want to talk about that
one real fast? Can you ex- or Dan?

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Yeah, we this is um,
this is the slurry and

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crack seal and and slurry, and this was
you know, we we had the we got the

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ballot issue today, and
and as we said before, if that passes,

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that we will be increasing this program.
But, at this time, this is all we're

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we're approving is this
crack seal and slurry.

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Uh we want to get it
in the mail, basically, and uh we have

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two bids that were turned in, I believe.
Yeah, one with um

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Vance Brothers and
the other was

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was it Pavement Management?
Yeah.

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And um we've used both of these in the
in the past. I you know, we're we're

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been very happy with Vance Brothers and
they came in with the low bid. Also came

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in
um under the

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estimated engineers' estimated bid,
also.

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So.
Uh would be the recommendation from

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Municipal Services to accept that bid
and from

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our uh director.
Okay. You What streets are these, do you

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know?
Mhm. What streets are we doing?

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Uh
I

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we don't have it right here, but we've
got it we've got a program showing what

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we're going to do. Um
it may be

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Uh Amory, it may be on that one that's
on the website, isn't it? Or it would be

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real close. I don't know.
I think it is up there. Yeah.

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Yeah, we had the mill and overlay and
then we had the slurry

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uh crack seal and slurry coat.
So, this would be the crack seal and

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slurry coat, but there's no there's no
mill and overlay here. Good.

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I know we talked about having an
engineer to be able to check out their

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their slurry mix. Do we still have that
on on the book? Yeah, we're

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that's the plan. Okay.
All right. And Vance Brothers is is a

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good company. We I've worked with them
with Course Lab and

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and they're they're good. Yeah.
They've always given us a pretty good

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product.
Glad to see him coming with that bid.

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You good? You good with it, Randy?
Okay.

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Um
And it says right here

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um

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Municipal Service wanted to submit that
bid tab for 2026 micro surfacing

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program.
Um and he recommended the bid from Vance

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Brothers LLC from Kansas City, Missouri.
And that is an amount of $345,085.35.

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And if everybody's okay with that, I
need a motion and a second.

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I make a motion we accept, Your Honor.

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Second, Paprick.
All in favor? I. I. Any opposed?

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Next [snorts] up, we have appropriation.
Um Ms. Lewis, would you give the first

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reading by title only, please?
Excuse me.

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» [clears throat]
>> Excuse me. An ordinance making the

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appropriation for the payment of
accounts out of the different city

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funds. I need a motion and a second to
take that to a second reading.

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I move to take it to a second reading.
Second, Allen.

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Ms. Lewis, could I have a roll call?
Fox. Yes. Allen. Yes. Brant. Yes.

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Simmons.
>> Yes. Green. Yes. Paprick.

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» Yes. Gibson.
>> Yes.

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Ms. Lewis, could you give the second
reading by title only?

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An ordinance making the appropriation
for the payment of accounts out of the

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different city funds. I need a motion
and a second to approve.

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Move to approve, Green.
Second, Simmons. I'll have a roll call

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vote, Ms. Lewis. Allen. Yes. Brant. Yes.
Simmons.

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» Yes. Green.
>> Yes. Paprick.

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» Yes. Gibson. Yes. Fox. Yes.

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Gentlemen, is there any other council
business that we need to discuss at this

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time?
Uh

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Mayor, I you you and I have talked in
the past about fixing this place up a

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little bit.
Um

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I know Amy allocated revenues uh
conservatively based off property taxes

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and stuff cuz you don't have an exact
number, but

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if you guys would, you know, I'll be
I'll be leaving here soon, but could you

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really maybe get some bids about flowers
and grass and get the sprinkler system

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working and
you know, try to make our house look

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pretty good.
That is on the to-do list.

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» Yeah. Because I always said that we need
to get our house in order first

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» Mhm. before we make anybody else get
their house in order, so that is on our

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list. I know that uh
we talked to the school or I've talked

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to the school, too, and I've talked to
Ms. Lewis and

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everybody about getting some things done
around here that need to be fixed and

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Yeah. I mean, we can't
So, that's on the list to

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get that done. Yeah, okay. And you're
not going anywhere, so you'll still be

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around. Uh
Ward 2 councilman for

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um Nathan's seat, Mhm. is that in the
works? It is.

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I've got a list of people and I'm
probably will call some of them in and

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sit down and have a little chit-chat and
make a decision.

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Um
so that is in the works. Hopefully, I'll

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get that done maybe this week. Okay.
Okay.

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Anybody else got anything?
I hate to ask, but Tony and

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what's the update the status over there
at the power plant with the

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Can you give me a little bit of a update
where you're at?

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» Which project? The mega factory?
>> Yeah, the the nice shiny building over

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by the dog pound. The electric
Yeah.

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Uh
I'm

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Y'all are on track.
Cool.

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Good deal. Yeah, there was damage to one
of the

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the ceiling of it. I know Solar came in
and repaired that.

429
00:32:58,160 --> 00:33:00,440
Okay.

430
00:33:03,040 --> 00:33:09,200
Good deal. We're working after hours for
I just want to make sure my lights are

431
00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:13,560
on. It's going to get warm.
All right. My air is working.

432
00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:17,040
Huh. It's all I needed to hear.
All right. If there's no other council

433
00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:21,880
business at this time that we need to
discuss,

434
00:33:18,960 --> 00:33:25,440
I would ask for a motion and a second to
adjourn.

435
00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:30,873
Oh, before we adjourn, one thing. I do
want to update people.

436
00:33:27,120 --> 00:33:32,840
Ann Marie did get a new computer. So,
>> [applause]

437
00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:36,000
» We
Look at but Hey.

438
00:33:35,040 --> 00:33:40,160
Look at God.
Look at God. We got half of it.

439
00:33:38,733 --> 00:33:44,640
» [laughter]
>> We were we were working on that. So, as

440
00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:45,600
soon as we find the owners, man, we'll
work it.

441
00:33:45,283 --> 00:33:49,680
» [laughter]
>> I'm just kidding. As soon as you find

442
00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:52,400
the power button, you can get it going.
One thing I would like to mention, I

443
00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:56,200
think we're coming up here in a couple
weeks. We're going to be coming to the

444
00:33:53,800 --> 00:34:02,880
council asking for approval for a firm
bid on the new

445
00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:07,040
customer connect facility. We we got a
preliminary cost from Septagon, and then

446
00:34:05,680 --> 00:34:11,440
we're going to get a firm bid together.
We'll be coming to the council for that.

447
00:34:09,120 --> 00:34:11,440
Okay.

448
00:34:11,600 --> 00:34:17,159
Appreciate the heads-up. Appreciate you
guys.

449
00:34:15,639 --> 00:34:22,280
All right. If there's no other business
at this time, I would ask for a motion

450
00:34:19,240 --> 00:34:25,600
and a second to adjourn.
I move to adjourn.

451
00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:29,440
Second, Gibson.
Gibson got it.

452
00:34:27,720 --> 00:34:34,480
All in favor? Aye.
>> Aye. Any opposed? We're adjourned.

453
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:37,360
You can add the municipal court building
to your pretty adapt