[0:07] Please stand for the pledge.
[0:13] I pledge allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America and to the
[0:18] republic for which it stands, one nation
under God, indivisible, with liberty and
[0:25] justice for all.
Councilmember Brent, could you give us
[0:29] prayer, please? Bow heads, please.
Heavenly Father, we thank you for this
[0:32] day, the blessings of this day, and we
thank you for the blessings you bestow
[0:36] upon our city and and hopefully it leads
continue. And Lord, we ask for your
[0:42] wisdom and guidance as we do the work of
the city as we
[0:46] come from the time of Easter, may we
always remember even throughout the year
[0:50] the sacrifice that you gave with your
son Christ so we could have everlasting
[0:54] life.
And we remember that completely through
[0:56] the year. In Christ's name we pray.
Amen.
[1:02] » [clears throat]
[1:11] » Ms. Lewis, could I get a roll call?
Green?
[1:15] Patrick?
>> Yeah.
[1:16] Gibson? Here. Fox?
>> Here.
[1:19] Allen? Here. Brent? Here. Simmons? Here.
[1:29] All good. Adoption of the agenda,
everybody had a chance to look over it.
[1:34] If so, I need a motion and a second.
I move to adopt the agenda.
[1:40] Second, Gibson.
All in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed?
[1:48] Approve or correct work session minutes
of March 11th, 2026, work session
[1:52] minutes of March 16th, 2026, and regular
session minutes of March 17th, 2026 and
[2:00] special session minutes of March 30th,
2026.
[2:05] Everybody's had a chance to look over
that. I need a motion and a second.
[2:09] Make a motion to accept, Your Honor.
Second, Patrick. All in favor? Aye. Aye.
[2:15] Any opposed? Aye.
Moving on down to committee reports.
[2:19] First up, we have community
community development and code
[2:23] committee. That's council members Allen
and Simmons.
[2:32] Go ahead.
All right.
[2:35] » [clears throat]
>> I'm sorry. I'm just now
[2:37] getting a chance to see this. Good
night.
[2:39] I'm just now seeing it. It was obviously
available.
[2:43] Um looks like a total of 31
uh
[2:48] requests for permits.
Am I not reading that right?
[2:53] Am I?
Yeah, 31 issued.
[2:56] Uh 31 issued. Uh
for
[3:01] We collected $770
on those on those 31 requests.
[3:10] So, you got That's it.
Thank you, Mr. Allen. Mr. Simmons, do
[3:13] you have any other? No, sir. No report.
Next up, we have public relations and
[3:18] public safety committee. That's council
member Gibson.
[3:23] Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I have the monthly
report for the fire department from
[3:28] February 24th to March 30th.
The March fire department responded to
[3:32] five fires in the city, one fire in the
county.
[3:36] We responded to nine hazardous
situations in the city and two in the
[3:39] county.
We responded to 12 medical calls for the
[3:42] city and two for the county.
We responded to 18 non-emergency calls
[3:47] in the city and three in the county.
We responded to 16 public service calls
[3:52] in the city and one in the county.
We responded to two service calls in the
[3:57] city, a total of 71 calls.
And I also have the
[4:02] annual report for the fire department
for 2025.
[4:08] March of fire department responded to 42
fire calls in the city, 34 in the
[4:14] county.
We responded to one overpressure rupture
[4:19] explosion,
overheat non-fire. We responded to two
[4:24] uh
266
[4:27] rescue medical calls for for the city,
six for the county. We responded to 35
[4:34] hazardous conditions in the city and two
in the county.
[4:37] We responded to 104 service calls in the
city and six in the county.
[4:42] We responded to 68 good intent calls in
the city and nine in the county.
[4:48] We responded to
64 false alarms in the city and 10 in
[4:53] the county.
Total calls of
[4:56] 657.
Uh mutual aid received two times, mutual
[5:03] aid given eight times, casualties uh
civilian zero, firefighter zero,
[5:09] individual uh injuries
with civilians zero, firefighters are
[5:15] zero.
Property uh and content loss 2 million
[5:19] 41
and 70. Uh pro- property and content
[5:24] saved 2 million 266,830.
[5:29] That would be the end of my report.
Thank you, Councilman Gibson.
[5:35] Next up, we have Municipal Services and
Personnel Committee. That's Councilman
[5:39] Brent and Green.
Uh yes, Your Honor. First, we have the
[5:43] stormwater tip for the month.
And that is properly dispose of all
[5:47] rubbish and trash
that is left in your yard on the street.
[5:51] It will eventually end up in the closest
ditch with which would either that or
[5:56] the residue will end up in our ponds,
lakes, streams. So,
[6:01] try to keep that picked up cuz where
water storm water flows, everything
[6:04] goes.
Um the only other thing I have is, you
[6:08] know, later on the meeting we have our
um
[6:11] surfacing program
um bids. Randy Ann will be going through
[6:16] those.
Uh but those are an agenda item later
[6:19] on.
Councilman Green, do you have anything
[6:23] to add to that?
No, not at this time. Okay. Thank you.
[6:28] Thank you, Council member Brent. Mr.
Green, thank you.
[6:32] Next up, we have property, finance,
budget, and audit committees as Council
[6:36] members Pappert and Fox. [snorts]
Uh
[6:40] » [clears throat]
>> halfway through the fiscal year
[6:42] the end of March is halfway through the
fiscal year. Uh revenues at 9.75
[6:47] million, expenditures 9.8.
Uh according to Ms. Klingner,
[6:51] everything's looking great. Um
Also during
[6:55] March, uh two grants were received. Uh
the police department received a grant
[7:00] for $80,000 approximately. And the
airport received a grant for
[7:04] approximately $200,000.
[7:08] That's all I have. Thank you, Mr.
Pappert. Mr. Fox, do you have anything?
[7:13] Good. Moving on down, we have city
administrator's report, Mr. Kerman.
[7:18] Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Couple updates uh
especially on on the LaPaz sinkhole from
[7:25] the last meeting. Uh we had the city
engineer's crews um come down right
[7:29] away. Um
they had attempted a fix previously uh
[7:34] that was insufficient. Um Lamp Rynearson
actually had Randy's crews open that
[7:39] hole and create used a camera to create
a 3D scan of the collapsed box and the
[7:47] other junction boxes. If any of you have
seen the pictures that Randy has from
[7:50] under there, there's a very unusual um
uh
[7:55] conglomeration of different size and
different types of pipes coming together
[7:59] in those boxes. Um what this model is
going to do is allow them to perfect the
[8:03] geometry and hopefully design a precast
structure, which is what they believe is
[8:08] the fix that's necessary in the in the
best way to protect the business that's
[8:12] so close to it uh that can be dropped in
there. Um
[8:16] they're going to be on site. We are
probably another week away from having
[8:20] the geometry perfected on that 3D model.
Uh the issue with the precast is that um
[8:26] even under an expedited order, it could
take 4 to 8 weeks for them to actually
[8:30] cast and deliver the structure to us. We
are trying to move this project along as
[8:35] as quickly as we can.
Uh there's a few other um
[8:40] issues that we'll need to talk to the
city engineer about about whether or not
[8:44] um the work is too deep for local crews
to do or whether or not that needs to be
[8:48] bid, which could also cause some delay.
So, I'll keep you updated as as we work
[8:52] on that. I I expect that we're going to
have uh updates at the next meeting and
[8:55] probably the one after that as well on
on the LaPaz hole.
[8:59] Um an update uh also on on Cotton Street
and Councilman Green had asked for some
[9:05] updates on the situation out there. Uh
ESS, who was the engineer that led that
[9:09] effort, had created some um of the
documents that detailed the parameters
[9:15] and the widths of the construction
easements,
[9:18] um but they had not sent those on to our
stormwater engineer, Christine Lubrick.
[9:23] Uh she has reviewed those and uh
returned them. And uh we expect to be
[9:28] collecting signatures on those easements
uh later this week uh with help from the
[9:34] uh city attorney. I'm sorry, the
uh city engineer here off the clock.
[9:40] » [snorts]
[cough and clears throat]
[9:45] » Yes,
also want to mention Eastwood. You know,
[9:48] we've got a big FEMA project over there
that we took out of the hands of one
[9:52] engineering firm a couple of years ago
that had missed a deadline or two
[9:57] and sent that over to ESS. ESS is now
working
[10:01] in conjunction with the city engineer
and they have secured all of the
[10:05] easements that are necessary for that
drainage mitigation work over there.
[10:10] However, and this is this is fairly
important because these are federal
[10:14] funds. Two of the property owners have
asked for appraisals of their easements
[10:19] and then this is their right to do and
we have to provide those. It's going to
[10:24] be a little bit tricky
both because the easements lay in a
[10:28] flood plain, but
more specific to these easements is that
[10:31] there's an existing utility easement
already there. Both of those things kind
[10:36] of devalue the property so it can be
challenging to find comparables that the
[10:41] federal government will accept
as adequate to to provide that feedback.
[10:46] So, we're going to continue to work with
those two property owners and hopefully
[10:50] get those secured. Along the lines of
easement acquisition,
[10:55] the tap granted Miami and College, all
of the easements are in but one
[11:00] and that one is just hung up in
corporate. We're told that it's
[11:03] forthcoming,
but their corporate office has been
[11:06] taking their time with it. We really
expect to have that soon.
[11:10] Once those easements are here and
recorded, then the right of way at the
[11:14] state will clear them and issue the
notice to proceed for the actual
[11:19] construction to to begin on that on that
tap grant which is for sidewalks and
[11:23] improved crossing at the intersection.
And then just one mention since we've
[11:28] got some of our partners from MMU here
tonight, Uh did get an updated list of
[11:34] uh streets from the underground
utilities from Grant Piper today to
[11:38] complement any street work that we do in
the future and we appreciate their
[11:41] diligence sharing that information with
us. So, happy to answer any questions
[11:45] that you may have about these or any
other items.
[11:48] Mr. Chairman, one thing I know it it
hadn't been brought up for a while, but
[11:52] on College Street, um if you're heading
east going up the street at Miami and
[11:58] College, um no, I didn't Let me tell you
back. If you're heading west, don't
[12:03] forget about you know, they took out the
turning lane. Yes. To Have we got any
[12:07] update on that deal?
I When we When we brought the city
[12:11] engineer in to that part just to kind of
function as a review agent, um we we
[12:16] brought that up. It We're Again, we're
not certain that MoDOT is going to allow
[12:20] any additions to the scope of the grant,
but that doesn't mean that that work
[12:24] can't be still be completed by by the
city itself. So, uh more than likely uh
[12:30] what will happen based on that meeting
that we had between ESS and Lamp
[12:33] Rynearson and the city staff is that
assuming that there's um that MoDOT
[12:37] doesn't open the door to including that
um the issue with the turn lane and the
[12:41] and the signals and the funding, uh that
they will complete the grant
[12:45] requirements. ESS will complete the
grant requirements to MoDOT's
[12:49] expectations, and then Lamp Rynearson
would come back and add or or or modify
[12:54] as as necessary. Um that's kind of the
plan now. We We should have a little bit
[12:58] more information uh soon. Right now,
we're really not getting any
[13:02] construction feedback because
right-of-way is still waiting for those
[13:05] easements. Okay. Thank you.
>> [snorts]
[13:08] » Mr. Chairman, the uh smokestack
property, I was out there last Monday.
[13:11] That's the last time I've been out
there. Has I mean, have they been Is
[13:14] that ready to go yet? Uh it's very, very
close. Um they're they're they're
[13:18] breaking concrete uh in a couple areas
now and working. I know the mayor's been
[13:22] out there a couple of times uh talking
with Randy uh as well as other staff.
[13:26] And um yeah, it looks better and better
every day. So, we're getting very close,
[13:30] but I don't think as of today that I
would call it complete yet.
[13:32] » Okay.
[13:36] Are those [snorts] improvements
satisfactory to the school board? Or the
[13:42] board, I guess. But, I mean,
are we headed in the direction where
[13:45] they'll they'll be satisfied?
>> I hope so. I think the um
[13:49] I think the discussion that the finance
committee had with Randy out there after
[13:52] their meeting um
were the the that they were trying to
[13:56] address that very issue.
Um and and yeah, I I think from the top,
[14:01] especially when you're standing up at
the school property, it looks Randy's
[14:04] crew did a great job. It looks a million
times better. From the bottom, we've
[14:07] still got that final um tier where the
loading dock was,
[14:11] uh and that's what he his crews are
chipping away at right now. So,
[14:15] um
I'd say, depending on where you're
[14:17] standing,
uh it looks more acceptable than it may,
[14:21] you know, if you're standing uh down the
hill by the ramp. So, but I think that's
[14:24] going to improve here very quickly uh as
he continues to remove that loading
[14:28] dock. Okay.
Very good.
[14:32] Is that your report?
>> It was. I got another question for you.
[14:35] So, go ahead, and then I'll ask you that
question.
[14:38] Thanks, Mr. Chairman. Thank you. Um my
report was done by Mr. Pepper.
[14:42] I'm just kidding. Um
to answer your question about that, we
[14:46] did I've been out there talking to
Randy, um and it looks 100% better.
[14:51] And they're busting up all the footings,
all that stuff. I mean, he's actually
[14:56] making a lot of progress.
>> Okay. Um also, his crew went out and
[15:00] kind of started mowing around
the building and moved the pile. Um
[15:05] hopefully, our plans or whatever is to
get it where people can fish on the back
[15:09] side of it and get all of it cleaned up
around down through there.
[15:13] But, they have been working on it. It
looks it's starting to take shape. It's
[15:17] looking really good. So, probably what,
another
[15:22] couple days, a week.
They'll have it pretty much all done and
[15:25] then hopefully with that done, um
then we can kind of get the first phase
[15:32] or the first part of this contract done.
Yeah. Um and close Cuz when's the
[15:37] deadline? May 1st. May 1st or something.
May something. I think It's the 1st.
[15:44] So, that's kind of the goal and Good.
hats off to y'all cuz they really been
[15:49] hitting it hard.
It looks good. So, we're getting there.
[15:52] Good.
[15:55] Other than that,
that's my report. Okay, that's my
[15:59] report. You had a question. I was going
to ask.
[16:02] No, it's okay. Okay.
Moving on.
[16:08] Uh next up, we have business from the
audience.
[16:11] It's limited 3 minutes per speaker. Any
person, resident, or non-resident
[16:16] wishing to address the council may
approach the microphone at this time,
[16:20] state their name, and their comments.
It's 3 minutes.
[16:25] Oops.
[16:35] Yes, my name is Richard Rodden.
My
[16:39] uh complaint is about the police
department.
[16:44] I have here
recently, I've had problems with noise
[16:49] complaints in my neighborhood.
I'd call
[16:55] an officer would show up.
>> [sighs and gasps]
[16:59] » I think the first one was badge 130.
He told me that this was at 3:00
[17:08] in the morning.
[17:11] He told me, "No, I'm not going to go
over across the road and go to that
[17:18] I'm not going to do my job. It's
basically what he told me.
[17:25] So, I had to sit there the rest of the
night after he left. Now, 10 minutes
[17:31] after he left, a car pulled up in front
of that house,
[17:37] and a person come out of that house, got
a car, and left.
[17:44] He didn't want to wake nobody up. He
didn't want to investigate.
[17:49] » [snorts]
>> The officer before that, badge 142.
[17:54] This was back when there was snow on the
ground. It was cold outside.
[18:01] He didn't want to do his job, either. He
told me, "No, I'm not going to go over
[18:06] there.
I'm not going to do that. I don't cuz
[18:10] when he pulled up, they turned the music
off. He says, "I don't hear no music.
[18:16] Until I hear music, I'm not going to do
nothing."
[18:25] So, you know,
what's the point in calling the police
[18:30] if the police aren't going to do their
job?
[18:36] Is my point.
What is a citizen supposed to do? A
[18:41] taxpayer?
[18:47] Is what I'd like to know.
[18:53] Just yesterday, I got a ticket for
driving my tractor, lawn tractor.
[19:00] Mind you, there was a couple protest
signs on it. I had come back from mowing
[19:05] a buddy's yard.
[19:09] On my way home, I decided I'm going to
circle the police department a few times
[19:16] and then I'm going to sit in front of
the police department for a short period
[19:20] of time,
then I'm going to go home.
[19:23] I sit there,
out comes an officer, badge 114,
[19:29] and writes me a ticket for driving my
lawn tractor. He's classifying it on the
[19:36] ticket as a motor vehicle.
[19:43] If you look underneath the Missouri law
statutes, it is listed underneath farm
[19:49] machinery.
>> Mr. Rodden, that's your 3 minutes. Mr.
[19:53] Hudson, would you Thank you. We'll talk
about this.
[19:58] Anyone else like to approach the mic at
this time?
[20:09] I'm Randy Duett. I'd like to see about
getting some 30-minute parking signs on
[20:14] the south side of the post office.
There's seven spots there. One's
[20:18] handicap and the other six are being
tied up 8:00 to 5:00 every day,
[20:23] Monday through Friday, by
I'm not sure who,
[20:27] but that that's so nobody of the 575
personal mailboxes in there, people have
[20:33] got to park on the far side of the
street,
[20:35] cross over, get their mail, cross back
across the street, and a lot of those
[20:39] are senior citizens.
And that's kind of an unsafe situation,
[20:42] I would think.
I think if we had the 30-minute signs
[20:46] there, there were some 10-minute signs
and 1-hour sign, but they've been
[20:51] removed.
So,
[20:54] anybody can park there all day, I guess.
But I would think being the post office
[20:58] that they would want to
let their customers come in and get
[21:01] their mail on time
without worrying about trying to, you
[21:04] know, get hit across the street back and
forth.
[21:08] That's uh that's basically what I'd
have. I just think it'd be a safety
[21:12] issue there to go ahead and have that
done. 30-minute signs, I think, would uh
[21:16] would be sufficient for sure a person to
get in there and get out.
[21:20] Okay.
Thank you. Thank you, Mr. DeWitt. Thank
[21:23] you.
[21:26] Would that fall under
[21:35] Mr. Gibson. Yeah. Can you kind of do a
little bit of research on that? Yeah,
[21:40] absolutely. We'll look into that.
Thank you.
[21:44] Anyone else like to speak at this time?
[21:54] My name is Keith Zinn.
And I agree with Randy there. That is uh
[22:01] bad signs. You get elderly people trying
to get into the post office.
[22:06] And they just took the signs down. That
that just a free-for-all for them trying
[22:12] to get in. Elderly people is what I was
referring to.
[22:16] And
uh
[22:18] our former mayor, is that lawsuit
settled?
[22:24] I don't
There's not a lawsuit with the former
[22:27] mayor. It wasn't with them? No. Well, I
thought there was. No, sir.
[22:33] Huh. Okay. So, yes, it's settled.
Never was one. Never was one. Hm. Okay.
[22:41] Uh
how much does RTS pay the city for
[22:46] tearing up the streets?
[22:50] We don't collect anything from RTS for
their street or for their pick their
[22:53] truck usage.
Hm. Well, I
[22:58] got some pretty good information that's
$250,000.
[23:04] Uh well, if it is, I don't remember it
being in the contract. So.
[23:09] I said, "Well, I'd like somebody to look
at that because what I got is pretty
[23:14] reliable."
And
[23:18] he uh
I said, "My God, $250,000.
[23:22] Wow."
But, I could've misunderstood him, but I
[23:25] don't think so.
Thank you. We'll find out. Let's examine
[23:30] it and get back with you.
Drew,
[23:33] Dan, can y'all check into that, JD,
please?
[23:38] We'll get you an answer.
Yes, sir.
[23:42] » [clears throat]
[23:46] » Anyone else like to speak at this time?
>> [clears throat]
[23:53] » Moving on. Randy,
[23:58] moving up, the next one we have is uh
the mowing services.
[24:03] And what I have here
is uh
[24:06] it says on March 25th, 2026, bids were
opened for lawn mowing services at city
[24:12] office building, Martin Martin Community
Center, and Municipal Court in Marshall.
[24:18] Um there was only one bid that was
received.
[24:22] And that was with Quality Lawn Care.
That is $200 per mowing.
[24:28] Anybody got any questions about that? Is
that for mowing all three locations or
[24:33] $200 per location?
It's for all three locations.
[24:37] » Is this in line with the last year's?
Last year was $195 per mowing, so it's
[24:42] $5 increase per mowing.
Gas prices.
[24:46] » [laughter]
>> Amen. That's generally followed a $5
[24:50] increase annually.
[24:54] If everybody's okay with that,
um I'd ask for a motion in a second to
[24:59] approve quality lawn. I make a motion to
approve. Second.
[25:04] » Second, Alan. Ooh, he was
You got to speak up, Harold. You got to
[25:08] speak up. All
All in favor? Aye. Aye.
[25:13] Any opposed?
[25:19] Next up,
we have the lawn
[25:23] um, fertilization services.
This one here was on March 25th, 2026.
[25:29] Bids were opened for lawn fertilization
services at City Office Building, Martin
[25:34] Community Center.
Um, one bid was received as follows, and
[25:39] that was with Easy Green Professional
Turf Management.
[25:44] And that is an amount um, well, it's
recommended that we go with that one,
[25:48] but it's an amount of 1,440
bucks. Is that for a year or for the
[25:54] year?
>> That is for the year. Last year was
[25:56] 1,350.
[26:01] If everybody's okay with that, I'd like
to ask for a motion and a second to
[26:04] approve that.
Move to approve.
[26:08] Second, Patrick.
All in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed?
[26:18] Next up, we have um,
oops.
[26:25] 2026, that's a micro-surfacing
program.
[26:30] Brandy, do you want to talk about that
one real fast? Can you ex- or Dan?
[26:35] Yeah, we this is um,
this is the slurry and
[26:40] crack seal and and slurry, and this was
you know, we we had the we got the
[26:44] ballot issue today, and
and as we said before, if that passes,
[26:49] that we will be increasing this program.
But, at this time, this is all we're
[26:55] we're approving is this
crack seal and slurry.
[26:59] Uh we want to get it
in the mail, basically, and uh we have
[27:04] two bids that were turned in, I believe.
Yeah, one with um
[27:09] Vance Brothers and
the other was
[27:15] was it Pavement Management?
Yeah.
[27:19] And um we've used both of these in the
in the past. I you know, we're we're
[27:23] been very happy with Vance Brothers and
they came in with the low bid. Also came
[27:28] in
um under the
[27:32] estimated engineers' estimated bid,
also.
[27:35] So.
Uh would be the recommendation from
[27:40] Municipal Services to accept that bid
and from
[27:44] our uh director.
Okay. You What streets are these, do you
[27:48] know?
Mhm. What streets are we doing?
[27:52] Uh
I
[27:53] we don't have it right here, but we've
got it we've got a program showing what
[27:57] we're going to do. Um
it may be
[28:02] Uh Amory, it may be on that one that's
on the website, isn't it? Or it would be
[28:07] real close. I don't know.
I think it is up there. Yeah.
[28:11] Yeah, we had the mill and overlay and
then we had the slurry
[28:15] uh crack seal and slurry coat.
So, this would be the crack seal and
[28:19] slurry coat, but there's no there's no
mill and overlay here. Good.
[28:24] I know we talked about having an
engineer to be able to check out their
[28:28] their slurry mix. Do we still have that
on on the book? Yeah, we're
[28:33] that's the plan. Okay.
All right. And Vance Brothers is is a
[28:38] good company. We I've worked with them
with Course Lab and
[28:42] and they're they're good. Yeah.
They've always given us a pretty good
[28:45] product.
Glad to see him coming with that bid.
[28:50] You good? You good with it, Randy?
Okay.
[28:54] Um
And it says right here
[28:57] um
[29:00] Municipal Service wanted to submit that
bid tab for 2026 micro surfacing
[29:05] program.
Um and he recommended the bid from Vance
[29:09] Brothers LLC from Kansas City, Missouri.
And that is an amount of $345,085.35.
[29:19] And if everybody's okay with that, I
need a motion and a second.
[29:24] I make a motion we accept, Your Honor.
[29:28] Second, Paprick.
All in favor? I. I. Any opposed?
[29:37] Next [snorts] up, we have appropriation.
Um Ms. Lewis, would you give the first
[29:42] reading by title only, please?
Excuse me.
[29:46] » [clears throat]
>> Excuse me. An ordinance making the
[29:47] appropriation for the payment of
accounts out of the different city
[29:50] funds. I need a motion and a second to
take that to a second reading.
[29:55] I move to take it to a second reading.
Second, Allen.
[29:59] Ms. Lewis, could I have a roll call?
Fox. Yes. Allen. Yes. Brant. Yes.
[30:06] Simmons.
>> Yes. Green. Yes. Paprick.
[30:09] » Yes. Gibson.
>> Yes.
[30:11] Ms. Lewis, could you give the second
reading by title only?
[30:15] An ordinance making the appropriation
for the payment of accounts out of the
[30:18] different city funds. I need a motion
and a second to approve.
[30:23] Move to approve, Green.
Second, Simmons. I'll have a roll call
[30:27] vote, Ms. Lewis. Allen. Yes. Brant. Yes.
Simmons.
[30:32] » Yes. Green.
>> Yes. Paprick.
[30:35] » Yes. Gibson. Yes. Fox. Yes.
[30:43] Gentlemen, is there any other council
business that we need to discuss at this
[30:46] time?
Uh
[30:48] Mayor, I you you and I have talked in
the past about fixing this place up a
[30:53] little bit.
Um
[30:56] I know Amy allocated revenues uh
conservatively based off property taxes
[31:04] and stuff cuz you don't have an exact
number, but
[31:07] if you guys would, you know, I'll be
I'll be leaving here soon, but could you
[31:10] really maybe get some bids about flowers
and grass and get the sprinkler system
[31:14] working and
you know, try to make our house look
[31:17] pretty good.
That is on the to-do list.
[31:21] » Yeah. Because I always said that we need
to get our house in order first
[31:25] » Mhm. before we make anybody else get
their house in order, so that is on our
[31:30] list. I know that uh
we talked to the school or I've talked
[31:34] to the school, too, and I've talked to
Ms. Lewis and
[31:37] everybody about getting some things done
around here that need to be fixed and
[31:42] Yeah. I mean, we can't
So, that's on the list to
[31:47] get that done. Yeah, okay. And you're
not going anywhere, so you'll still be
[31:51] around. Uh
Ward 2 councilman for
[31:56] um Nathan's seat, Mhm. is that in the
works? It is.
[32:00] I've got a list of people and I'm
probably will call some of them in and
[32:05] sit down and have a little chit-chat and
make a decision.
[32:09] Um
so that is in the works. Hopefully, I'll
[32:11] get that done maybe this week. Okay.
Okay.
[32:16] Anybody else got anything?
I hate to ask, but Tony and
[32:23] what's the update the status over there
at the power plant with the
[32:28] Can you give me a little bit of a update
where you're at?
[32:30] » Which project? The mega factory?
>> Yeah, the the nice shiny building over
[32:34] by the dog pound. The electric
Yeah.
[32:39] Uh
I'm
[32:42] Y'all are on track.
Cool.
[32:45] Good deal. Yeah, there was damage to one
of the
[32:49] the ceiling of it. I know Solar came in
and repaired that.
[32:58] Okay.
[33:03] Good deal. We're working after hours for
I just want to make sure my lights are
[33:07] on. It's going to get warm.
All right. My air is working.
[33:11] Huh. It's all I needed to hear.
All right. If there's no other council
[33:15] business at this time that we need to
discuss,
[33:18] I would ask for a motion and a second to
adjourn.
[33:23] Oh, before we adjourn, one thing. I do
want to update people.
[33:27] Ann Marie did get a new computer. So,
>> [applause]
[33:31] » We
Look at but Hey.
[33:35] Look at God.
Look at God. We got half of it.
[33:38] » [laughter]
>> We were we were working on that. So, as
[33:42] soon as we find the owners, man, we'll
work it.
[33:45] » [laughter]
>> I'm just kidding. As soon as you find
[33:46] the power button, you can get it going.
One thing I would like to mention, I
[33:50] think we're coming up here in a couple
weeks. We're going to be coming to the
[33:53] council asking for approval for a firm
bid on the new
[33:59] customer connect facility. We we got a
preliminary cost from Septagon, and then
[34:05] we're going to get a firm bid together.
We'll be coming to the council for that.
[34:09] Okay.
[34:11] Appreciate the heads-up. Appreciate you
guys.
[34:15] All right. If there's no other business
at this time, I would ask for a motion
[34:19] and a second to adjourn.
I move to adjourn.
[34:24] Second, Gibson.
Gibson got it.
[34:27] All in favor? Aye.
>> Aye. Any opposed? We're adjourned.
[34:32] You can add the municipal court building
to your pretty adapt