[0:16] Good >> evening and welcome to the class. A city council meeting for monday, september 14th. We will start with the pledge of allegiance >> but allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> all right.

[0:38] the roll call do we have all councilors and mayor present? We also have our financial controller barb baird. We got our security officer dean sharif public works. What sadly was here. I guess he's left now. We have stephanie kessler with parks and rec.

[0:55] we have tony walton center zoning officer and ashley crago with cedar. Moving on to resident input is there anyone here to talk about anything that's not on the agenda? Want to come on up, state your name and your address. Resident input is a right to be heard not necessarily a right to action and you're limited to three minutes. Anybody mayor and members of the city council.

[1:16] my name is taylor barlow. I live at 34929 paul de road moved up here two years ago I'm the owner of. Is a real estate broker and here in cohasset I'm here tonight to discuss the black water bank's project potential because I believe we have a very, very unique opportunity in front of

[1:33] us and an opportunity that we only get one shot at. Really >> when we look at the black water bank's project area >> and the potential it represents, I think we really need to think beyond what works just today what works in grand rapids and focus on what really can have the greatest impact on our community ten,

[1:47] 20 and 30 years from now we should be asking ourselves what can we create here that will bring. And bring people into our community not just for an afternoon but for an experience what will give people a reason to visit, stay spend money and come back and revisit? I believe we should be willing to think big and

[2:05] consider ideas that may initially seem unconventional but may have been shown to be successful in. Successfully completed in the past. One possibility I believe deserves serious consideration is going to be like a casino or a card club. I'm not suggesting that this because this is an easy decision.

[2:22] it >> should be it should not be made lightly or that gambling should automatically be the answer. I'm suggesting this because at least we have a conversation and study. What type of destination this could become and mean for our community.

[2:38] this could could it attract visitors from outside our immediate area? Could it create jobs, could support a hotel, restaurants, other local businesses could generate revenue that could be reinvested back into our community to build on the foundation that we have here already.

[2:55] these are all questions worth answering before we rule out the idea, I'd like to note that a casino expanding into a local government land has already been successfully completed nearby and walker or if anyone's aware of walker the single be successfully did this on the water it offers a place for boats to fuel. It's a marina for people that duquette has a restaurant small convenience store.

[3:13] small off sale liquor for boaters to purchase products locally and keep the money locally >> whether the card club is owned by the state government or by a nearby tribe. I believe that my request tonight is simple let's just think bigger. Let's study all the possibilities. Let's evaluate the property based on its long term potential. To attract people, create economic activity and strengthen our community.

[3:28] and this project idea is something that the city council is interested in exploring further. I'd be interested in acting as a liaison between interested parties since I have contacts that could help progress the project and that's something I feel passionate and. Thank you for your time and thank you for your service to our community. >> be sure to thank you. Thank you taylor >> any other resident input? Hearing none.

[3:50] we can move and then we want to address what taylor had to say before we move on. I'm good at >> moving on to council and for liaison reports. I don't know that we had anything since the last council meeting.

[4:08] as far as other liaison situations if not we can look at approving the agenda as written. I do not have any additions or deletions from the agenda as it's written. >> make a motion to approve that a motion by one item second seconded by mcconnell all in favor I opposed motion carries.

[4:27] moving on to item number six a presentation from tim terrell with mississippi headwaters border dem. Take it away. Hey, >> thank you, counsel. My name is tim carroll from the mississippi headquarters board. I'm just going to talk about one little program that we do in your town here and but just to give you a little emphasis, the mississippi headwaters board is a regulatory organization. We.

[4:47] we have planning and zoning authority on the first 400 miles of the mississippi river. Cities are not included. So but it's something that we do and that's just kind of a regulatory type. But we also have other programs that we do.

[5:05] >> but I want to talk about something that I partnered with stephanie from parks and rec here a few years ago and we call it the resort payment program but. A better word that's a word >> I came up with but it's really a paddling program. But I'll go through it a little bit and and just kind of go through some of the things we're taking a look at economic development through natural resource marketing.

[5:23] that's kind of what we're trying to do here and kind of our things people they want to experience our natural world not just see it anymore. You know, they've been on their phones long enough. They kind of want to get out there and everything is be on tv.

[5:38] >> how can I outperform or you know I do have a gopro when I'm doing the >> it's just kind of our culture now. So we look at natural resources, economic development, tourism >> and we kind of blend the program out of that.

[5:57] so you know their logical we started with signage then we did paddling events and then we did some type of promotion but in the beginning we had signage and I'm not going to bore you with our full signage project there but if you go to yoga beach, if you go to steamboat and a one place of the army corps of engineers you'll see that signage there and it tells you where you're at, where you end

[6:15] up and how many hours it will take you to paddle. And there's a little qr code >> that you sign that will follow you down the river just like google maps. So it's kind of cool that way. Take that but we're going to go over some of the things that we did.

[6:29] I'm going to skip but here's kind of a cohasset we did the paddle and paint there and this is just actually from today or last excuse me from last time we did it but we went up there there were a loon. We started at tioga. We went to the army corps campground.

[6:44] I mean it's just something different. So we played that on our social media and we had 7.5 thousand views on that and 41 people attended that. So it's a pretty that's a pretty big program.

[7:04] I mean I look at what other people are doing when >> they're hosting an event and they get 10 or 15 they're like jumping for joy. We get we get 41 >> and we're like man, could we do better because we do about 4 or 5 of them and we get over 100 people and so the economics side of this every time you download or take with your phone you scan that qr code on scan I can get a

[7:22] count. It just counts the number of people and we use that do it the math and we just put a little economics. So with the events plus the signage scanned in 2024 >> we generated we approximate 61,000 over 61 2025 we're at 30 so a total of 9092 okay.

[7:44] but if you compare that to 20 to 23, hey we've actually shown improvement there. So >> those are just some things that the economics side of things that we look at things and then we look at you know things that government does that very familiar.

[8:04] I'm kind of go over the whole program with you not just specifically yours but you guys develop infrastructure. You you do hold events and stuff that marketing that's not necessarily something we do and you know a lot of our marketing is mostly local. It's not necessarily statewide.

[8:26] a lot of times we post to the same audience just because people are very informal people are very connected social media wise, especially the paddling events. I mean you don't want to read about it. You want to see it on social media because it is just so convenient is why and so you know, we looked at things you look at other different organizations and you see how many followers they have all the myths and now visit bemidji has 16,000

[8:47] you've got 22,000 lights on or 23,000 followers in grand rapids. Well, the mississippi headwaters board we actually just on facebook alone have 45,000 followers. So we we took a look at that and said, well, how can we use our social media that we call minnesota traditions and really promote so because we know that people come up here

[9:11] for natural resources but we never could really put numbers to it now we can. So that was just something that we kind of stumbled on and this actually came from grand rapids of course that's during the those numbers are probably pretty high right after covid.

[9:29] >> but you know outdoor rec this is why people come up here so so can >> I ask you a quick question? Was our paddles and pints on your website? >> it was supposed to we actually have an event page on our site too and we we promote it through social media because a lot of people you can put on a

[9:45] website but that doesn't mean people are going to go there. Right. And so you got to promote it through social media and then I just kind of look at your cohasset website everything about it is about recreation and I was sitting out by that sign out there and four out of the five posts

[10:00] were all about go to tioga, we're going to do some running or we're going to do yoga. Are we going to do that? So that's really interesting.

[10:14] and so just >> kind of my last slide is how can image be held? Well we can work there is a way that we collaborated I worked with stephanie. She posted >> some things on her social media. I posted it out and we combined audiences so we were able to get the word out a lot to a lot more people >> you know kind of work >> like a co-op is kind of the idea we're not the biggest player but we have enough followers

[10:33] and we have if we collaborate enough through that program we can actually share some of our things. But you know, it's worth the conversation is how can we promote the natural resources in your area, in your area because you we can plan events, we can do things we can great infrastructure but if people don't know about

[10:52] it, they're just not going to come and that's where kind of the influence I did some influencing on some things and it really about being excited if people social media isn't really about conveying information what it's about is getting engagement and creating a an emotion with inside you because if you create an emotion, if you see

[11:14] something it sticks it in your brain in long term memory and then you can always people will remember that. So those are some things out. But we do want to thank you for the bus, the 42 for the bus. We didn't have it for the last two years.

[11:33] we had one through lewis killen and was able to donate the party bus for us that was kind of unique. I >> but but even though it was only a five minute trip back down but it was be a good thing people remembered it and it really helped us out.

[11:53] so I just wanted to go over that and this was more just informational but did you have any questions for me? No. I guess I appreciate you working with stephanie. She does a great job >> of of putting us on the map as far as social media and events that go out there. So that collaboration obviously is is helping bring some more >> eyes to the city of cohasset.

[12:17] so I would say stick working with her and >> thank you for this. We can issue a lot as I'm sharing. Thank you for your support tim. Really appreciate it. Thank you and oh I brought >> this for you. We have this out.

[12:32] it's a phone case and you go around your neck and it floats and it goes in the water and you can actually take pictures from it so it doesn't do that. And >> also have on there I put a qr code >> so we have about 4 or 5 events we do a year and if you scan that with your phone it'll take you right to our event page.

[12:48] so I'm just fantastic. You can pick it up. Thank you. Appreciate that. Thank you. Thank you. >> thank you. Thank you. Jim he's okay with that we can move on to approve resolution 2026 dash 28 and donation for late the night event and we do have a donation came in from brooke hager remember brooke was the

[13:09] one that came and her husband, you know, had a tragic incident and we got the bench now at taylor beach for her and she made a generous donation to the city for the late night here event in december.

[13:28] so looking for a motion to approve resolution 2020 2026 dash 28 so that donation second that got a motion by her close second by ten quest any further discussion or clarification dimension? >> okay, good. Thank you. >> as she was in here she was I would have been years ago >> but yeah goes absent yeah yeah.

[13:51] so all in favor I opposed motion carries thanks approve resolution 2026 dash 29 authorizing an interim fund alone so we have a water tower that needs some maintenance done on it and our water fund is underfunded to take care of the maintenance right now whereas our natural gas fund is we want to overfunded or is in good shape >> since surplus in surplus.

[14:15] so we're looking at doing an entire fund transfer loan from the natural gas fund into the water fund with a 15 year repayment plan going back into the natural gas fund from the water fund as time goes on for the next 15 years.

[14:35] I >> have one question on item number four on the payment schedule >> says payment shall be due on or before so that be december 31st just as honor before 31st of each year. Yes. So that should be december 31st. Okay. I want to get back I'll >> make a motion to approve the inner fund loan. I'll second >> that. It's you know with water towers having a couple of them on site.

[15:06] we do plan for routine maintenance and long term maintenance but they tend to get pretty excessive and and we we can't we can't keep hundreds of thousands of dollars for it so we use these funds to to basically enter finance themselves so that we don't have to raise taxes or so I will second his motion. I >> thank you for that clarification on there.

[15:26] so we got a motion by a macdonald second by her club any further discussion? Hearing none all in favor >> I opposed motion carries. Moving on to item six d approve resolution 2026 dash 30 preliminary 2026 tax levy payable in 2027.

[15:51] it is that time of year again unfortunately where we have to talk about our levy and taxes for the upcoming year we've had some work sessions now where we've talked about the budgets and trying to figure out what we need to be doing with that and what we are looking at is a total tax levy of $4,528,016 would be general fund a $4,000,388.

[16:15] 16 for $4,388,016 100,000 under the eda and 40,000 into the cemetery which would be a proposed 3.43% increase over the 2020 year six >> levy. I >> make a motion to approve the 3.

[16:41] 43% increase in the levy part of that is is we need to cap that and we can come down from that so we need to make sure that we're conservative enough to where we have enough to cover everything and that may come down but with inflationary costs of everything that we're dealing with we can't have zero and we don't want to shock the public with with double digit increases.

[17:06] so we are trying to make this much more palatable and again we can we can reduce that if we don't need those funds. But I highly believe that we're going to be about the 2 to 3.5% potentially for the next five years just with the way things are going. So >> so 3.

[17:28] 43 sounds palatable to me and as I stated that can go down if we if we find funds that we do not need to do that. But it seems like the appropriate number for 2026 2027 I will second that >> got a motion by harkless second by tim quest and further discussion on that.

[17:47] I think just to kind of piggyback on what parks was saying, I think all of us can just look at what the increase to gas and groceries has been over the last year or two and just realize that just through natural inflationary patterns there's no way that things can't go. It has to grow and unfortunately it has to >> go up. One last >> year wasn't the average 7.

[18:09] 7% across the state so yeah, we've >> been very much below that and and we don't want to play this catch up game so small incremental is going to be good for us. We can't have zero every year we don't want 10% so let's take it a little spoonfuls if we can.

[18:30] so we've got a motion we got a second to all in favor I opposed motion carries here item six excepting resignation of fire department captains position one of our captains has for the betterment of himself taken a job out of state he put himself on to a leave of absence for the fire department so he's not officially resigned from the fire department but is also realizing that with a leave of absence he cannot continue on

[18:51] in his office for position. So he is resigning from the captain's position to open up that for someone that is present here present right. So I'll make a motion to accept the resignation of chris thompson. I'll second that. >> a emotion for mcdonnell second by ten.

[19:09] quest any further questions or clarification on that question that >> I have is I mean the resignation came in on june 1st >> of 2026 and we're now just voting on it.

[19:26] yeah, but I do with the officer from >> right we had it was probably part of the action >> from him he didn't realize he needed a written resignation so we had to wait for us to actually have the written to come through council. But he verbally resigned before june 1st effective for june 1st but his verbal resignation was before okay.

[19:46] does those captain's issues go back to june 1st then or does he get captain's stipend to this point? No, from from june to june 1st. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. So we had a motion by mcdonnell a second by ten point quest all in favor I opposed >> motion carries.

[20:07] >> have you backfilled that yet just now >> we have we did actually hire position that spot we have lieutenant lieutenants we went up to captain and hire for lieutenant so once we have that in place I'm not going to counsel for him. Gotcha. Same time. Thank you all moved up. Mitch moved up to which moved up to captain positions from the two months so okay.

[20:27] item six f approve aware safety award for first half of 2026 remaining employees tony all right. So you guys had already approved the major portion of the aware for first half of safety award about a month ago. There were a few people that were admitted for it for various reasons in discussion with city staff and discussion with you, mr.

[20:47] mayor, we wanted to get the remaining three people paid if they're a liability for the aware program they should be getting paid as well. So these are just the last three remaining people that were omitted from the last request. 100% agree with that sounds good. So approving lyla, hannah and wally you got it for $45 each. About 35 >> dollars. I'll make a motion to approve.

[21:07] I'll second got a motion by harkless seconded by benotman. Any further clarification on that hearing? None. All in favor. I opposed motion carries. Thank you guys for your service let's say thanks.

[21:35] we had him six g approve quotes and authorize ordering vehicles so we are looking at picking up in other public works directors truck I suppose you want to call it and then another plow trucks we're looking at two trucks for public works. This is the way I'm reading this properly.

[21:55] so what you're going to give us a rundown of what back we're looking at here? So >> as bob and I have been talking about vehicles, you know, instead of running these things into the ground, we should be turning them around >> and getting some money back out of them before they're worth nothing.

[22:22] my vehicles the next one on the slot dan schroeder support truck is with a one time dump truck and he needs a regular pickup and that dump truck will go to the cemetery and be stationed there so we can use a winter time. So that's how we justify those two along with that deed sheriff's vehicle safety vehicle. Yep.

[22:45] this is the same vintage as mine and also the fire chiefs truck is same vintage as mine so there's four vehicles total vehicles total of have >> yes to this year to next year. Whatever you got to do one thing we had a do we put them all in yeah we did put it all on a budget yeah all right >> but I'm just thinking for staggering long term that's what I was >> hoping for.

[23:02] yeah, but I'm good with either and just if we need them, we need them. >> these four vehicles were all purchased at the same time that would be replacing and we can stagger going forward or are they all about the same mileage and yeah pretty close.

[23:39] are we looking at durango would be yeah the durango would be for who per diem for security we're secure for where is your you go I tried so what's the recommendation here I see three prices here one from north country, two from don langer is the request to procure all four vehicles at one time for let's go around and which for >> williams and the one dodge durango to gm's and durango three gm three gm's in the

[24:07] durango and why are we doing the gm's over the ram >> just like to try a different vehicle because the rams aren't quite where we hoped they'd be all gas yeah there's $11,000 difference between the between the ram and the 11,000 >> 51 for 54 for ram and 62 157 for chevy.

[24:39] does the ram have the flow on with it? I don't know that >> the chevy does yes one >> of the chevy's one of the chevy's has a low price on an already all I heard is there's the ten 744 the snow dog it makes sense you know so any need two of those are just one just one

[24:57] plow truck okay so one at 62 157 >> should be look at the gm one with the plow on it. That's the one I just six that's 66 eight 5560 they're bought one says no call and the other says 12 but the total is 66 for both of them. What's wrong something's wrong.

[25:27] I get the plow adding the 10,000 but I don't get the buying chevy over a dodge for 11,000 all the reasons 1000 we're screwed up my camry revisit that I got a 66 855 on the attached page that that includes the ten 744 a plow the other one I have a 66 and it does have a ten seventh as

[25:56] an up fitters switch install and I don't think they deleted the plow because it doesn't show it on the left hand column but it shows ten 740 on the right. >> yeah yeah yep. Hmm.

[26:26] so it's probably a clarification on that on the yeah well that's what the numbers yeah and >> I would also like to patronize our local dealership if at all possible. These are the two local divisions that's on the navajo north country and living well that's where you know they didn't come from. Oh gotcha. Okay. Or both.

[27:03] the ram and the gm, they're both on state but yeah so what about the durango issues with them the only one with a real v-6 material and seven horse long turbos yeah yeah then you get >> of that durango now I mean you don't >> use your truck box a whole lot do you.

[27:20] I don't think with the stuff I have in my vehicle an suv would be better >> keep it longer and sure safer if you only can we get a bunch of flashing lights on that thing, you know, to take the lights off the truck.

[27:38] no, I mean like strobes in the actual headlights >> and stuff you want me to kind of do >> that little no, I know I'm aware >> but he's he's 20 grand less than the other guy so you know I have >> cameras in there for you. Do photos and video stuff I have all right here I have no guys so that seems to work as long as they get the prices correct for the for the two that you're proposing. Yeah.

[27:57] do we need a table at them? >> yeah. Let's table this until we actually get proper bids on there and >> then will we auction the three that were the ones going to the cemetery.

[28:14] >> the other two will go to auction then or what are we >> thinking? You told me so we've got a number of really old vehicles here. Yeah. So do we auction off like the best ones and keep a lower end one of the three or vice versa change it for maybe stephanie's truck or the janitor's truck or something like that. You tell me how you want to do it.

[28:35] I >> can you can you when you come back with this cleaned up can we have a can we see a list of vehicles and age in miles >> and you just yeah and maybe you get that you guys all kind of chime in on >> what yeah what what's the best transition land yeah I'd rather keep the ones >> if they can be realized here and

[28:50] get rid of the junk that makes more sense to me you know if they're going to last longer for stephanie or whoever is getting the second one. Okay, so let's do that. All right.

[29:13] until the next time let's call somebody you >> all right so we can move on to item six each new you walk audit findings. Ashley how did that go? >> it was good sale brief overview the goal of the walk out it was to really get a community level look at how people experience your streets and your pedestrian routes. So not just an engineering perspective but from a perspective of somebody walking or biking in your community.

[29:36] so we had nine community members participate. We looked at two different routes to get a broader perspective. Some of the biggest takeaways was connectivity. Yes. So you have a lot of existing pieces of pedestrian and infrastructure but they don't always connect to each other to get a safe and comfortable route.

[29:59] it's less about one individual sidewalk and more about how people get from one destiny to another. So one of the most consistent concerns we saw was the lack of sidewalks which I don't think you guys are not aware of. City council is famous for that but that >> came up as one of the biggest barriers to walking.

[30:19] so where sidewalks do exist we looked at walk down county road 62 there on the bridge and that was specif specifically identified as a concern just because of how narrow that is.

[30:36] I don't know if any of you walked on that but it is a one person fits down that sidewalk and then there is an area that someone noted that there's kind of a big hump or bump when you go down. That's not great for walking. But I think one of the biggest concerns of that is anybody with mobility concerns can't walk on your bridge and anybody that's walking with a stroller probably can't walk safely down that area as well.

[30:54] anything you wanted to say on that part, steph steph helped me by the way. She was great partner in this and then we also looked at river road so that stood out as an opportunity. Participants identified it as a route that could benefit from improved walking and biking.

[31:13] it was pointed out that river road is used to bike to school which we heard about so it just gives us an opportunity to think about not just the recreational connection there but how do we get safety transportation to your school so there were a lot of positives though.

[31:34] so the walk on it noted that there's a lot of well-maintained homes and buildings and trees landscaping and generally good roadway conditions and then we noted a lot of pieces that contribute to a pleasant community.

[31:52] so I think there's a lot of strengths to build on with in your community already and it's just thinking about how we can keep continuing to improve it so I want to make sure that this isn't a list of projects for you all that we're going to put it on my list. I'm going to make you spend a bunch of money. The idea is just to think about this as we move forward with our projects in the community and just keep it in mind.

[32:04] so as we're working in certain areas and developing certain projects knowing that these are concerns and just making sure that they stick in our mind as we're doing those projects, this will also help us with that kind of funding and planning pieces.

[32:26] so I think it's really important to have tangible documented, you know, concerns from your community as we go after funding to do those improvements. So overall I think the audit just confirmed that there is an interest in making class it more walkable and bike friendly but there are some basic infrastructure gaps that we need to address and this report gives us a good starting point to prioritize those improvements.

[32:44] do you think we can combine this with the snowmobile thing? I mean I know it's what we're thinking but is >> this are they typically used together? I mean other than well the bike trail north of the fairgrounds is walking biking trail until winter and then it becomes a snowmobile trail right? Hmm.

[33:04] you know what I mean? So is that something we can put look >> like this should be a coalition of of smashed needs that we can potentially a difference >> on that though that pops to mind the mesabi trail that walking hiking biking turns a snowmobile people aren't out there using that to get from one place to another right in front of their residences.

[33:25] right whereas long river road or eighth street or third street there >> you got people out there potentially >> using that time walking as >> opposed to just I'm just wondering if we can >> keep keep those two things in mind as we start to think and talk more about it and how do we

[33:41] get how do we hit every dart >> if we can and it might be impossible I'm not I'm not discounting that but >> we have conversations as this keeps coming up we need snowmobile trails over here.

[33:58] we need walking trail we need >> and it's like how do we kill two birds with one stone with you know, a solution I guess is what I'm looking at and either the unicorn, you know, journey through the cemetery area and possibly be a walking path but it could be a sidewalk could just be too much money, you know. Right.

[34:13] you have or you have a way to walk from point a to b but it's not going to be paid for accessibility and strollers and so you could offer another opportunity. You walk in the woods to get from a to b but you're not really addressing the school issues and and the bike street issue. Okay.

[34:30] I think it's something to keep in mind though even as you guys eventually >> so I mean that's all I'm asking is this just to keep it in mind because we you know, we've talked about both of these back and forth >> where we're kind of getting to the lake street to 63. Right. And the solution right.

[34:45] and these little pieces >> that need to fit the puzzle, you know, any progression on that helps, you know, >> with these results can this be used for going out for grants funding? Yes for >> so I think this will be great to show that we've done and gotten received community feedback.

[35:06] not only that but stuff and I worked with some great organizations for this so we worked with the arrowhead area agency on aging as well as rdc. So I think when we go after grants we also will have some letters of support that we can help with these projects to show that they came and walked or seen our community and that these are concerns and that it would

[35:20] benefit the community as we move forward and kind of going even beyond what this study did here and we've spent some time talking about the connectivity on lake street from where it ends. Allen view they're continuing up to 63.

[35:44] has there been any more work done on trying to continue that? >> not that I'm aware of. I think we would did the grants for that one right barb so but I haven't heard anything back from my trip earlier on that one at all >> and just you're waiting for results back from the dnr also to make sure >> that anything on call made was her I thought

[35:59] >> when she came in what her name was when she was here she was going to reciprocate that information back to us. That was clarification that that was right away and we could continue that on if we wanted to. It was it's definitely right.

[36:15] yeah so but we have to proceed into that molly >> okay. And we have not done that. Okay so >> maybe I should put it back to us but I don't want to share what it was and I feel like after that meeting she did say something and I thought I talked about but I can't her right now. You know and we were together.

[36:30] yeah because I feel like reach out for >> me and if we need to okay now let's let's look into that too and see what where that's going.

[36:43] I was just going to mention to you I think as you guys work on your projects I'd be for infrastructure thinking about just some small pieces that can better those areas safety wise. I know one of the concerns that came up was like lighting especially on river road there and I know there's probably residents down there who don't >> want lighting either.

[37:00] so I think we need to file in those balances but I think some of those concerns came up and then looking at like there's no benches really for anybody to sit whether you're walking in a long distance and need a break there for sidewalks >> to put a bench on we're not there yet but I just want you to keep those pieces and so I think we got a lot of good feedback from the community as so when

[37:15] we do to go do a project >> that these are things that we should keep in mind that would really benefit the community. >> thank you. Thank you. Thanks ashley. Appreciate it. Thank you stephanie yeah, it's a good okay and >> move on to sort miscellaneous announcements reports and foia eyes.

[37:34] I do not have any or do we have anything going on that we need to what if I talked >> about other than your bingo? Oh yeah. October >> 15th fireman's bingo coming up and if you see people firefighters walking around or trying to sell the raffle tickets obviously buy raffle tickets businesses that want to donate to the bingo would be very

[37:53] much appreciated also so keep that in mind. You >> also miss the state of the city address today because you're on fire. Clarify that. Yes, please. Oh >> yes. But ashley, she filled in for you know, she did an amazing job so yes, yes. That was at the chamber of commerce luncheon today.

[38:17] designated mayor actually I like it. >> yes. Designate designated there. Thanks, ashley. Appreciate >> that. But I'm looking to confirm do we cut and do that again? So yeah.

[38:44] how did that go ashley those that those five mayors that well or and you >> and myself not the mayor but yeah right now it was hard it was a really great conversation you know it really highlighted the similarities that we have across the region of challenges and there are goals that we're trying to achieve and I think it really highlighted how we all should be collaborating together to kind of figure out a strategy for overcoming those barriers.

[39:06] and you know, we just highlighted that really whatever impacts even one community has a ripple effect through the region and so much as we can work together to keep those benefits in the region, the better. Perfect. Thank you. The other announcements no, no. All right. Moving on to the consent agenda. We can prove the claims the amount of $144,934.

[39:29] 97 I approve the august 19th budget work session minutes approve the august 24th 2026 work session and city council minutes and approve a cemetery deed for christopher werth out somewhat second that a motion by harkless second by mcdonnell any further discussion? There are none all in favor I opposed motion carries with that we'll adjourn for the

Cohasset City Council - 09-14-2026

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