[0:11] I had a good feeling about it but then we got back to the parents.

[0:22] » I have 5:00 so what I like to do is call the meeting of the Edgewood Town Council

[0:27] for March 16th to order. We're all right. Eyes, please, and

[0:31] pledge of allegiance.

[0:37] Pledge of allegiance. >> I pledge allegiance to the flag of the

[0:40] United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation

[0:46] under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

[0:51] » And let's take a few minutes to reflect upon

[0:56] things that are happening around the world

[0:58] and more importantly to think about and to pray for all of our men and women

[1:04] that are in harm's way.

[1:13] Thank you.

[1:18] Ms. Chandler, may we have the roll, please?

[1:20] » When I call your name, please state here or present. Mr. Reed.

[1:24] » Present. >> Mr. Briggs. Ms. Barron.

[1:27] » Here. >> Mr. Lee.

[1:28] » Here. >> Mr. Barron.

[1:29] » Here. >> Mr. Pickett.

[1:31] » Here. >> Let the record show

[1:34] » [clears throat]

[1:42] » Okay. Uh we did receive a letter of

[1:46] resignation from Shane Briggs. Um Shane and his family have moved out

[1:53] of the town of of Edgewood and because of that he um is unable to uh serve on

[2:00] on the council. Ms. Tanner has reached out to the

[2:04] chairman or chairperson of the of the Republican Party

[2:09] to indicate that we do have a vacancy and it will be up to them to select and

[2:15] to appoint his replacement. Okay.

[2:19] All right. Mr. Servis.

[2:23] » Okay. You Can I open these something here to

[2:27] or do I need to get up to the >> [laughter]

[2:32] » It's good exercise.

[2:36] » By the way, um we are not live this evening. We're

[2:40] having problems with YouTube, so we are recording today's session and then

[2:45] hopefully tomorrow they can resolve the issue and then we'll upload the the

[2:49] video. >> Okay, we received uh two bids for street

[2:54] paving project. Uh

[2:57] one from B&B Paving and one from DC Construction.

[3:01] Uh both companies have bid in the past here.

[3:05] Uh the first one I have is DC Construction

[3:09] in the amount of $321,955.36.

[3:17] And let's see, the next one is B&B Paving.

[3:39] And that one is in the amount of $313,800

[3:45] $313,846.50.

[3:53] And would recommend that we take these under advisement.

[3:57] » What was the first one again, please? >> $321,955.36.

[4:07] So, they're very comparable.

[4:18] And that's that's all I have for this year.

[4:23] » Is Michael Michael, you look at these before we move.

[4:26] » Well, I typically have and Mark >> I You might want to have a motion to

[4:32] take them under advisement. >> Yes.

[4:34] » That's That's my That's the idea that we would go ahead and then

[4:38] award the bid at the next meeting. >> Okay.

[4:41] » So moved. >> Second.

[4:42] » Okay, it's been moved and properly second that we take the two bids under

[4:46] advisement. All those in favor say I.

[4:49] » I. >> All right.

[4:50] » Those opposed? >> Okay.

[4:52] » Okay. >> Excuse me. Excuse me.

[4:55] Uh is there a is there a source we can determine which roads are going to be

[5:00] paved? >> Yeah, they're they're in this they're in

[5:03] this list, yeah. >> Okay.

[5:05] » Yeah, I can provide you with a copy. >> Okay, I'd just be curious.

[5:08] » Oh, yeah. >> Thank you.

[5:09] » Mhm.

[5:14] » Okay. Fire report.

[5:26] » All right, well, good evening. Uh for those of you that they don't know

[5:29] me, my name is Jordan White. I'm the privilege and service captain at

[5:32] Edgewood Fire Department. Um

[5:35] during [clears throat] uh during this past month of February,

[5:38] the Edgewood Fire Department responded to a total of 43 calls for service.

[5:43] The operational tempo remained steady compared to last month. Uh training

[5:47] compliance and community engagement continue to be uh departmental

[5:51] priorities. Uh the breakdown for the calls of

[5:55] service include uh 34 medical calls, which uh year-to-date that makes it 112

[6:00] calls. And then a further breakdown of that, we

[6:03] had two uh MBA or trauma-related um calls, eight medical injuries, or excuse

[6:09] me, medical emergencies, four chest pains, two abdominal pains,

[6:14] four injured in a fall, seven trouble breathing, one unconscious, one stroke,

[6:19] one um OB uh emergency, one altered mental status, one diabetic, one head

[6:25] injury, and one headache. Um total fire calls and other related is

[6:31] nine. We had two structure fires, two brush or grass fires, one gas leak,

[6:37] two fire or smoke alarms. We We gave uh or provided mutual aid for

[6:42] two calls. >> [clears throat]

[6:44] » And that's our That's our our total call breakdown.

[6:47] Um a significant um significant incident of note was a

[6:52] structure fire on February 28th of 2026. Um crew from tanker 99 uh with three on

[6:59] board along with engine two and engine 84 from South Madison responded to a

[7:04] reported residential structure fire. Incident commander arrived on scene and

[7:08] a scene size-up was completed and the fire was contained to the HVAC unit in

[7:12] the backyard. Uh member training and readiness, uh we

[7:17] had a total of 147 hours completed for uh 25 members. That's an average of 5.9

[7:25] hours. Um

[7:29] we are compliant with our um emergency response uh support hours and our fire

[7:34] officer hours. We've also had um se- several training topics that we've

[7:39] covered, active assailant, operational scene safety, pediatric overview, and

[7:44] fire dynamics and behavior. Um Edgewood Fire Department currently

[7:48] has two members in EMT class, which um that is if y'all are not familiar with

[7:53] the current EMT program, that is a very rigorous and long program. So, we're

[7:58] very fortunate to have two folks going through that now.

[8:01] Um we are Edgewood Fire Department is currently holding um a structural

[8:05] firefighting initial response strategy and tactics certification course.

[8:10] That's a 40-hour course that begins on April 3rd of this year. It's a It

[8:14] provides a comprehensive framework that prepares incident commanders to manage

[8:19] the first critical moments of a building fire. So, that's the initial responding

[8:23] officer. Um

[8:25] And so, that will help with prioritizing life safety, incident stabilization, and

[8:29] property conservation. Uh and then our upcoming events and

[8:33] fundraisers, March 28th, we have the Easter egg hunt. Um that would be here

[8:38] in the town of Edgewood. So, watch our Facebook page for that. If you don't

[8:41] like and follow our page, I highly recommend it.

[8:45] Our Our folks that have to handle that through the town does a fantastic job.

[8:49] Uh April 10th, uh from noon to 4:00 p.m. is the blood collection drive. Um our

[8:55] goal is 13 donors. It'll be at located at 3317 Nickel Avenue.

[9:00] Um you can register online, and uh that's also on our Facebook page.

[9:05] August 8th, Edgewood Fire Department will be out at

[9:08] Anderson Speedway conducting a 50/50 raffle. So, um we look forward to seeing

[9:13] everyone out there, and uh that's a that's typically a a pretty good pretty

[9:17] good fundraiser for the fire department. And then August 3rd, Edgewood Fire

[9:21] Department will be hosting our fourth annual fish and chicken fry

[9:25] um here at the fire station. Uh the fire department is always looking for help

[9:29] with uh monetary donations or um food or or or dessert. Feel free to contact us

[9:35] either through our our social media pages or Jessa, our uh public

[9:39] information officer. And we'd be happy to

[9:43] to coordinate that and get set up. And with that, that is our fire

[9:47] department report.

[9:50] » Any questions for Mr. White?

[9:55] Fair enough. Okay, thank you. All right.

[10:01] » I'm going to deviate um

[10:05] from our printed agenda this evening because we have a special guest joining

[10:11] us to this this evening. Um Mr. Kyle Pierce is our state state representative

[10:18] and so with with that, Mr. Pierce, um

[10:22] we'll give you an opportunity to to address us.

[10:25] » I'll be real brief. Thank you for that, Arthur. I appreciate that. You know, I I

[10:28] Arthur Arthur, Robin, and Fisher, are you there

[10:31] as well? Cathy Good, Cathy. Yes. We uh we we got

[10:35] together at the uh aim uh they do an annual legislative dinner.

[10:40] Uh it was actually really interesting. Uh they had the CEO of Community

[10:44] Hospital there and and Monday nights always are always going to be hard on my

[10:47] end and so I I had told Arthur and the group that hey, I hadn't had a chance

[10:50] hadn't had a chance to make it out to a council meeting but I kind of left early

[10:54] work early with this afternoon to I wanted to get out and uh be here. I'll

[10:58] make sure everyone has has my card. Um I always just want to be a service to you

[11:03] all if I ever can in terms of this issue at the state level. Edgewood is pretty

[11:07] quiet in terms of things at the state compared to that to our brethren in

[11:10] Anderson. There's water issues and utility issues and things like that

[11:14] where depending the age a lot in the state level. I've not heard so much at

[11:17] the state level at the from Edgewood but if there are ever issues, I want to be a

[11:21] resource. Obviously, if you have, you know,

[11:23] state contacts with, you know, if there's, you know, whatever

[11:26] [clears throat] state agency, obviously go to them first but if there's ever a

[11:30] situation where hey, where you're running into roadblocks or not hearing

[11:34] back, you know, I always say half of my job is the policy stuff that gets the

[11:37] most notoriety. But the other half that I play the old

[11:40] school phone operator where you have a question or there's a concern, let me

[11:44] know and I can kind of run it down for you. And so,

[11:48] I appreciate the the short term. Real quick, you know, obviously there's

[11:51] things we're talking about the local government level.

[11:53] There you know, there's SEA 1 from 2025. We're still kind of trying to fine-tune

[11:57] that. So, there's some more predictability for the board so that you

[12:01] know you know what you're doing going into 28 28 28 29 30 31.

[12:05] But yeah, but happy to answer your questions. But also, I don't want this

[12:08] to be the one-time thing. I want this to be continuous conversation. If I ever

[12:11] can be helpful, might not always be able to make Monday at 5:00, but you know,

[12:15] always have to grab lunch and whatnot. But there are any questions, great. If

[12:19] not, I'll sit down and just kind of be listening.

[12:23] » I got a question. Appreciate you coming here. There's been

[12:26] a lot of concern about SB1 and the impact that it might have on

[12:30] communities. Do you have any thoughts on it?

[12:32] » I think the big the big thing is um

[12:36] I I've kind of entered two factions. One, if there's specific questions like

[12:40] hey, Ed you know, Ed has a question of hey, what's this going to look like for

[12:42] us in 28 29 27 28 29. Happy to sit down and sit down with uh

[12:48] uh Department of Local Government Finance or AIM. There's like specific

[12:52] questions like that. Generally speaking, I think

[12:55] uh the some of the things that we did this year in 2026 kind of more fine-tune

[12:59] and I give predictability. I was going to report from AIC which is

[13:04] Association of Indiana Counties actually this morning. Um I think in terms of

[13:08] that kind of global concern when people were looking at the 2028 financials, I

[13:13] think >> [clears throat]

[13:13] » um that has kind of calmed down. That when

[13:16] we did when we did SEA 1 in 2025, we looked at the 2028 financials, it was a

[13:22] estimate off of an estimate on when it came to the appraisals.

[13:27] As we've gotten closer to that, the the the assessment

[13:32] speculation for 2028 has stabilized and then we're pushing off the lit for a

[13:36] year for an extra protection. So, I think this concern of this like 2028

[13:40] fall off, I don't think that's going to be there. I think a lot of people have

[13:44] were concerned about when they saw the 2028 numbers and look at the fiscal

[13:48] note for FCA 1, it looked bombastic, but the fiscal notes were never set up to

[13:54] look that far out. So, I think now that we look there today,

[13:58] there's not going to hopefully be this massive drop off. There will probably,

[14:00] you know, you probably will see a transfer over from, you know, local

[14:03] income tax, but the big concern of you are hearing the saleable was the older

[14:06] residents, their income's going down, but yet the property tax wasn't being

[14:12] addressed all of that. Where now, if you are not your income's going down, we're

[14:17] not going to have that tax burden on you as much. And so, yeah, I mean, so it's

[14:21] it's one of those we're constantly going to go through it. And that's one of the

[14:24] things as we get closer to that, I want to hear,

[14:27] you know, if you have a financial [clears throat] advisor or your attorney

[14:29] says they we have a have a concern, let's talk about tweaking things. For

[14:33] example, I was able to get in a an exemption for the South Madison fire

[14:38] this last session. It was the only fire territory in the state that's actually

[14:42] able to go above 0.4 for the tax rate. So, there's some specific things we can

[14:45] do for Atwood. I can't guarantee it, but we can definitely talk through, okay,

[14:49] hey, there's some redline issue, let's meet, let's get together, let's get you

[14:53] guys with the ways and means, chairman, things like that and just kind of walk

[14:56] walk through and talk through So, yeah. >> Have a good day. If you have more

[15:00] specific stuff, happy to kind of walk through it. Thanks.

[15:02] » Appreciate it. If we need to talk to you about the pool, can we talk to you?

[15:06] » No, we have [clears throat] not. About the the pool?

[15:08] » Okay. Yes, you have heard about that. >> Oh, yeah, I'm very familiar with that.

[15:12] Yes. >> He's familiar with it and in our brief

[15:14] discussion, we will have more discussions in the future, I think, is

[15:18] what we discussed. >> And I I want to put anything

[15:21] Have there Have Have you guys discussed it all and I I'm going to leave probably

[15:24] do my political turn. Have you discussed it all with like

[15:28] any of the nonprofits at the state level or like any of the

[15:31] » Not yet. >> Okay.

[15:32] Again, it's I can't promise anything, but there is like a tourism boards and

[15:37] things like that where we can discuss it We're probably looking more at

[15:41] hopefully like maybe low term loans. I can't guarantee it, but we can

[15:46] just talk and you know.

[15:49] » We have grants that are >> Yeah.

[15:51] I do want to do grants and private donations and yeah and things like that,

[15:54] but but yeah I'm happy to talk about it, but

[15:56] » Do you golf? >> What?

[15:58] » Do you golf? >> I can play in a I can play in a

[16:00] scramble. >> Okay.

[16:02] With that one coming up in June. >> I'll do it.

[16:05] I'll do it. >> Okay.

[16:06] » Well, I will I will sit down with the >> Well, I will see before you sit down,

[16:10] any anyone any of our residents or anybody in your office have any

[16:13] questions for Mr. Pierce?

[16:18] » I'll discuss [clears throat] it in a little bit.

[16:19] » Okay. >> I'll actually get up to talk.

[16:22] » All right. >> I'll sit

[16:24] » Yeah. >> Yes, House Bill uh

[16:27] » Introduce yourself. >> 1048

[16:30] » It's 1048. I'm going to look it up in the journal.

[16:32] » Dale >> okay.

[16:33] » Dale, introduce yourself. Introduce yourself.

[16:36] » I'm Dale Van Brock with the fire department.

[16:39] You had increased [clears throat] the gas and clothing allowance to each

[16:42] volunteer firefighter on our our department this past state.

[16:47] And which is great. You raised it from 150 to 200.

[16:50] » Mhm. >> [clears throat]

[16:50] » So, how can we then give us any money to pay for that?

[16:53] » Yeah, we can talk about >> Uh

[16:55] » [snorts] >> So, what terms of So, I need to look at

[16:58] I'm looking at right now with these three.

[17:00] So, one in terms of why didn't we get more money cuz it's not it wasn't a

[17:03] budget year. So, we couldn't go into the budget as to generally speaking. So,

[17:07] this year So, without going into the bill itself

[17:11] um I am going to go through the same thing.

[17:14] Okay. The unit [snorts] circle

[17:17] shall produce

[17:21] » I see what you're saying. Yes, so in terms of whatever you whatever you give

[17:25] more money for, a lot of that's because in terms of if it's not a budget year,

[17:28] we don't allocate more money. Um but if you have a specific question

[17:32] of about it, I'm happy to discuss that with you. In terms of

[17:35] » Let me just ask you. We have to [clears throat] what 150

[17:37] » Yeah. >> How am I supposed to pay that with the

[17:40] limited budget that I have? >> I'll I'll we'll have to pull that up

[17:45] afterwards. I'll walk I'll walk through it.

[17:47] » Okay. Sounds good. >> And and not that the bill to to belabor

[17:51] that, but that does become what we look at as an unfunded mandate. And it does

[17:57] create a burden for small communities such as ours.

[18:01] » You know, I'm I'm happy to walk through this. This is

[18:12] I hear you. And we we can talk about that, too. I mean, if you want to you

[18:15] know, in terms of you know, try to offset or something like that. But

[18:17] again, I I hear you. Can I can I ask how many how many folks right now does that

[18:21] impact for you on your on your team? >> Well, we're [clears throat] budgeted for

[18:25] 25. >> Yeah.

[18:27] » And we're close to that every year. >> All right.

[18:29] » And that's happy. >> Mhm.

[18:31] » So, you take 25 * uh

[18:35] 150 for each one.

[18:38] That's what? Over 5,600, 7,800, 13,000 or something

[18:44] like >> All right.

[18:45] » Yeah. >> Let's sit down and talk. So, it was So,

[18:47] that was the author of it was a firefighter. Uh and so, if we need to

[18:51] talk about trying to address that, we can we can address that. We can make it

[18:55] we can make it optional or things like that.

[18:57] Um that was Randy Novak, who's a firefighter up in in like Lake Reporter

[19:01] County that offered that bill. And so, we can talk about it and we can

[19:04] » [clears throat] >> try to work

[19:05] work to address it. So. >> But I think it's a great thing to do.

[19:08] » Yeah. >> Just did.

[19:10] » Yeah. Well, we can let's let's sit down and talk. I mean,

[19:13] cuz um

[19:15] that's one of those bills that of all the hundreds we we passed, I'm not going

[19:19] to lie to you. I I I didn't you know, we haven't I haven't looked at that one in

[19:22] a couple months. But, we can talk through with like the

[19:25] with Cody over at the Anderson Fire. He's the head of the

[19:28] or he's the vice president at the Firefighters Union. And he can we can

[19:33] kind of talk through is there part of their ask for next year to have more

[19:35] funding for that? If it's not, we can talk about do we maybe have a

[19:38] conversation about a lot of guys have more variability of saying, "Hey, we

[19:42] can't do that. We got to report it." >> I'd love to talk with you.

[19:44] » Yeah, definitely. All you All I was going to say was feel free to hit my

[19:47] card out after after this if there are questions or things like that or if

[19:50] again you need to tweak it next session, happy to do it.

[19:52] » Okay. >> Okay. Thank you. Thank you.

[19:59] » Police Department, Randy.

[20:11] Good evening. Uh for the month of February,

[20:14] we had 82 calls for service and 22 traffic stops. And out of those

[20:19] two 22 traffic stops, we had two speeding tickets, two speeding

[20:22] citations. You can tell Officer Ray's no longer with us.

[20:26] » [laughter] >> We we do

[20:28] We have March to start off. We do have [clears throat] officers pulling over

[20:31] more people than and issuing more. So, that that number should grow.

[20:35] Um we are also uh Chief has started a physical fitness standards for the

[20:40] department. And we're also um increasing our um handgun and

[20:46] um What was the other one?

[20:49] » It's tactics. >> Defensive tactics standards. So, we're

[20:51] doing more training with that throughout the year.

[20:55] Um coming up on April 25th, Saturday, April 25th is Drug Take Back Day

[21:00] from 10:00 a.m. [clears throat] to 2:00 p.m.

[21:02] Uh we'll be here at the back of the Richfield Police Department. Um

[21:05] » [clears throat] >> any unused medication, we don't take

[21:07] syringes, we don't take um anything under pressure, any containers,

[21:12] asthma. We don't take any of those cuz they uh

[21:15] they just check it all into a big furnace and if you put those canisters

[21:19] under pressure, boom. [clears throat]

[21:22] And that would be bad. Um the last thing I have to talk about

[21:26] is this [snorts] table. I don't know if anybody saw it on your way in. This was

[21:30] made free of charge to the town, to the department uh us

[21:34] by the Department of Corrections. Um Jess and I went out and picked it up

[21:38] today, brought it in. Um not much to say about it. Looks nice.

[21:43] It's a really sturdy table. It's a heavy table.

[21:46] I can speak to that one. >> [laughter]

[21:49] » Um but it looks really nice and the inmates worked on it and like I said, it

[21:53] didn't cost us anything. They have a separate fund that they were able to

[21:56] make that from. >> It's beautiful.

[21:59] » So. >> Is that something you guys asked for or

[22:02] » Yeah, I Jess, how did you find out about that?

[22:05] » Um so their Facebook page, everyone's wanting you to see a different

[22:08] department getting stuff. >> Okay.

[22:09] » Um so I ordered one for the police department

[22:13] fire department at the same time. Fire department one is a little delayed right

[22:15] now. Um we should hopefully get it within the

[22:19] next year. We don't know yet though. Um that was all funded by um

[22:26] the sale of picnic tables for B&R.

[22:30] » It's nice. >> So she just happened to see it on

[22:34] Facebook and reached out to say, "Hey, we want one."

[22:37] And >> [laughter]

[22:38] » so they made one for us. >> Yeah.

[22:41] » So it'll be around. It'll either be here or in one of our back meeting rooms that

[22:44] we have. >> Is that a no cost?

[22:48] » Yes, no cost. >> Wow.

[22:52] They've been doing that for a lot of departments. APD has a really nice

[22:55] podium that they made for their training room.

[23:00] » Yeah, they they I guess they make them for a lot of departments around the

[23:03] state. It was new to me. >> [clears throat]

[23:05] » They sort of educated me on it, so. Yep, we got it.

[23:11] » Any questions for Mr. Ackerman? I'm good.

[23:15] Thank you.

[23:19] Mr. Ferguson, water report.

[23:27] » Well, there's a lot tonight, but first I'll tell you is it's good to be here

[23:30] cuz the last time I missed the last meeting. Um

[23:33] had a gallbladder surgery last time. Um got a lot of uh

[23:38] questions, answers, how am I doing? I appreciate all those.

[23:42] Uh one of the things about that was is the absolute next day I actually came

[23:46] into work after surgery. Um as the water

[23:52] water superintendent with the licenses that I carry, you still have to make

[23:57] visits to the water plant every day. So, I still fulfilled all of that even

[24:05] feeling bad. So, I I came to work the rest of the week. I did not work full

[24:10] days, but I was here for at least a couple of hours. Um

[24:14] definitely want to uh Carl's going to hate me for this, but I

[24:17] definitely I've been thinking the whole time cuz being under a weight

[24:21] restriction, I can't help. All I can do is just watching, you know, and that's

[24:25] that's an awful thing to not be able to help. So, but I definitely appreciate

[24:29] it. Um

[24:32] real quick on some things that we need to do. We have we have

[24:35] uh we always was talking about the lead service line project. We have to do that

[24:39] identification. Um I've just re-stopped receiving any

[24:44] emails from any residents. [clears throat]

[24:46] Nobody's taking pictures of their home or anything like we've asked. That

[24:50] That's all has stopped. I haven't received anything in

[24:55] in February, and I've not received any more in March. So

[24:59] » Should have gotten mine in February. >> I did receive yours but I thought I got

[25:03] it in January but

[25:05] either way they they those have all slowed down and pretty much stopped. So

[25:10] the the residents aren't doing that so it's

[25:16] going to be more difficult to make sure that we try to identify all of those

[25:21] and that will bring me to my question for the state representative is

[25:26] » Before before you do that can [laughter] um

[25:32] Are you concerned because it slowed down and stopped?

[25:36] » I kind of expected it. >> Mhm.

[25:38] » I mean >> Could we send a Could Could we send a

[25:41] text out or something if if >> We send paperwork.

[25:45] » Mhm. >> I mean we we delivered stuff everywhere.

[25:48] It's on the website. >> but we talked about it the other day and

[25:52] we're going to put it on the website again and advertise it on Facebook and

[25:56] we'll do that continually throughout this whole process cuz this

[25:59] is going to be a a few year process. It's not going to be a few month

[26:03] process. >> It's not It's not a very fast one. I

[26:06] mean I wish it was but it is not. >> Yeah but we have to keep it in front of

[26:09] the residents. >> Yes I'm

[26:11] » Yeah. >> I'm trying.

[26:13] » Yep. >> Okay I'll I'll keep mentioning it.

[26:15] » Well here's our social media guy right here.

[26:17] » Oh we we talk quite a bit. >> Okay. All right. Okay.

[26:21] » We talk quite a So my question for the state representative is under this

[26:26] initiative that the the federal government actually started in the in

[26:30] the state government doing through IDEM and stuff like that. I know like the

[26:34] town of or the city of Anderson has received more than $18 million for that

[26:39] particular project. Um >> [clears throat]

[26:41] » Edgewood is allowed zero dollars for that. They are telling us we don't

[26:47] get any funding because we are less than a thousand services so they think that

[26:52] we should do this on our own. I would love for you to give me more

[26:56] clarification on why the smaller cities are supposed to just fund it themselves.

[27:02] » I would say that's instead of doing that, let's try to get why aren't they

[27:05] helping funding less than a thousand? >> Well,

[27:08] I have asked I actually have an engineer that's calling almost on a monthly basis

[27:13] and they just say "Kirk, leave me alone. You

[27:17] know, it's not doing it yet." But I

[27:21] I go to a conference tomorrow. So, hopefully IDEM's going to speak on this.

[27:24] So, um be looking forward to see what kind of

[27:27] stuff they have to say. >> Yeah. I would say let's sit down and and

[27:32] uh is this is it Monday out of 24 or is it one day?

[27:35] » Yeah. >> So, let's sit down and and uh

[27:38] Now, the Now, caveat the feds might have said a

[27:42] thousand less, but if it's the state, let's I mean hey, worst the worst thing

[27:46] we can do is [clears throat] say hey, we should have it for less than a thousand

[27:49] and make them tell us now. >> Well, I don't know if I

[27:52] » We have to We have to do that at the We have to pass a bill to do that, but

[27:56] let's go work at it. >> I'm not sure who exactly is running it.

[27:59] I just know that they are telling my engineer

[28:03] "You don't get any money." So, [clears throat] and we have and he

[28:06] has tried several different avenues to get that. He's actually gone through

[28:11] some of his other clients that did not use all of their money, which they gave

[28:16] it back and he was like "Well, that was already allocated

[28:19] » [snorts] >> for these. Just give me that and I'll

[28:21] start divvying it up between some other clients." And they said no.

[28:25] » Yeah, and I

[28:27] I don't want to take over the meeting, but I mean

[28:29] I I I'm not I'm not saying that

[28:33] there probably is some probably was some kind of threshold number. I'm not

[28:36] doubting that, but what I'm saying is that basically let's work on lowering

[28:39] that threshold number. Uh especially if and this is kind of outside of my normal

[28:44] purview. So, once like you're they're returning

[28:47] money, at that point are they done? >> I would imagine so. I mean

[28:51] » So, they do let's talk about money that's been reverted, potentially

[28:54] saying, "Hey, money that's been reverted can create a

[28:57] fund for work." Yeah.

[28:59] » Well, I know for a fact he was told no. He was not allowed They were not going

[29:03] to get, you know what I mean? I don't know where it's going. I don't know if

[29:06] they're Who's sitting on it? What they what they're going to use it for. Like I

[29:10] said, hopefully on Wednesday when they speak,

[29:13] I I'm going to find out more information,

[29:16] so. >> Any other questions?

[29:18] » But, it just seems it just seems very unfair that small towns are not getting

[29:25] the same consideration as larger municipalities.

[29:29] » So, we will I'll say we can talk about it afterwards as well. I If they have a

[29:32] Q&A, you ask the question. >> I'm just looking at

[29:35] » Is this a federal guidance on this thousand, or is it a state guidance?

[29:40] State guidance we can talk about when we come in next legislative session.

[29:48] » I'll make sure I ask that particular question. Thank you.

[29:51] Um

[29:55] A few other things. Um here last weekend today, we've been removing

[29:59] trees out of the road. Uh we've we've talked about there are so

[30:03] many mature trees in the town of Edgewood. I think

[30:07] residents really should look at some of those and and have those trimmed. I I

[30:11] understand those are more costs out of those residential homes. Maybe they got

[30:15] the money, maybe they don't, but we sure have a lot of them down, and we

[30:19] are out there pushing them out of the road.

[30:23] Um Another thing is, and I don't know what

[30:27] we're going to do, but the stop sign over here at Cherry and Park Road, it

[30:32] it just keeps getting run over. Um we've had a couple of them get run

[30:36] over this year. Um one at uh

[30:41] Winding Way at 32, that one got ran over. So, we put a standard out, which

[30:45] is basically a concrete block it that you make out of an old car rim.

[30:51] Well, somebody decided to steal that. So, they stole that and then down the

[30:57] road at I'll call it Turtle Park, they stole a

[31:01] speed limit sign. So, we had to replace that one. That was $81. So, we put that

[31:05] one up. So, I don't know what they're going to do with an old

[31:09] dead stop sign and why they took a 20 mile an hour

[31:14] speed limit sign, I don't know. I would have wanted one that was a lot faster

[31:17] than that, I guess. I don't know. [laughter]

[31:19] You know, 55, you know, whatever. But, yeah, they decided they wanted that. So,

[31:25] we've done that. Um we started putting up street signs and

[31:30] taking out old poles. Some like they Some like posted that on Facebook as

[31:34] well, which I appreciate that. But, when the weather cooperates, we will go

[31:38] back out and we will get back on that as well when

[31:42] we get time. The One of the most newest things is is

[31:47] the water model for the for the new water tower has come in.

[31:53] Now, this is a draft. This is not a final product. Anybody that would like

[31:59] to look at that, I have I have one. It's long and it it repeats so much

[32:03] information in it, it's it's almost redundant.

[32:07] But, anyway, they the we had four sites here in South Edgewood that

[32:13] we looked at to bring up the water pressure and and

[32:18] things of that nature. And it does identify a lot of issues that we do have

[32:22] with the with the system and that would be one of

[32:25] the things is fire protection. So, toward the southern part of all the way

[32:29] down on Village, you know, they do have water pressure out there,

[32:34] but when when comes to pumping, some of that is is a lot lower than what it

[32:38] really needs to be. So, we have identified

[32:42] four areas to put the water tower, and the two places that they said would be

[32:47] the best places for us, we don't own that property.

[32:51] We would have to secure one of those two properties, and then go

[32:56] through a design and build and and do all that. Now,

[33:00] their proposal, like I said, this is just a draft. They've got some

[33:04] information in here that I've read that I've got to have them correct.

[33:09] Um they they're saying that um

[33:13] any of the four areas, if we were to put it there,

[33:16] the cost is all going to be the same. It will be They're they're projecting it at

[33:21] 3. $8.8 million

[33:24] to put a 250,000 gallon

[33:29] water tank in. And that is, by the hydraulic model, will boost all of South

[33:36] Edgewood and get us into compliance with fire regulatory

[33:42] uh PSI for all of our hydrants.

[33:46] And would actually bump up the water pressure for all the residents on the

[33:51] South End, as well. Um

[33:55] Now, the two sides that they that they cited would be the best, the

[34:00] first one is would is at the end of Redwood.

[34:05] Over here, just off of Winding Way, we're talking about if we could procure

[34:10] some some land, 2 acres is what they're

[34:13] asking for, over in the farmland. They're saying that would be that That's

[34:17] number one. Number two would be off of Oakwood, if we could get the

[34:23] the lot behind the church there, which is in Anderson, and we don't own any of

[34:28] that anyway. They're We're that it'd be number two.

[34:33] Um number three was putting it in Winter Park.

[34:40] On the Winter Park area, the problem with that is is the fact that there are

[34:44] no 6-in mains to be able to connect to. Which I've come up with an idea for

[34:49] that. I believe we just have to put in some We would have to actually run

[34:52] booster lines. We already own that particular property, so we'd have to

[34:56] [clears throat] run some 6-in lines out. Um most of our

[35:00] Most of our water lines in south, we have 6-in runs down

[35:05] uh South Winding and Edgewood. So, those are our our two biggest lines.

[35:10] Everything else spins off of that, and it's either going to be 4 or 2-in.

[35:16] Um the fourth area, I forget where the fourth one was.

[35:19] » Railroad. >> Oh, yes.

[35:22] Back on the other side of Village where we'd have to actually bore a line

[35:25] underneath somebody's residence to get it back into

[35:29] this way, so I'm not a big fan of that one.

[35:33] » Um Is that beyond the east lot?

[35:37] » Uh yeah. Um

[35:42] As it was put to me by Rob, he said aesthetically that would probably look

[35:46] best be down there, but it would be harder to have it put there.

[35:52] Um plus we Plus in dealing with many years of having to deal with water lines

[35:57] and things like that around a railroad station. No, we don't have to cross it

[36:01] or but just be near it, they can get extremely picky, and they can get just

[36:08] they can just be very difficult. So.

[36:11] » Even though that line is not highly used?

[36:15] » Yeah. They'll they'll come They're They're

[36:18] just like anybody. They're going to come up with an excuse for anything to do any

[36:23] of that. Um

[36:24] » What do you You the drawback for Winter Park?

[36:27] » I don't see a drawback for Windsor Park if we run the booster lines.

[36:33] So coming out of Windsor Park, so you got you are at Windsor and Orchard. So

[36:38] my idea was is if we were to run you [clears throat] can do it one of two

[36:43] ways. You can either replace the 4-in line that's there or you can just run a

[36:47] booster line. Um

[36:49] run it down from Windsor Park, run it all the way down to Edgewood and tie it

[36:53] into that 6-in. You can run

[36:57] a booster line a 6-in all the way down Orchard to where it ties into the 4-in

[37:02] at Westfield.

[37:04] And then also you can go from on the same 6-in slot on the same 6-in

[37:11] line, if you go on Dogwood, you go straight [clears throat] over to

[37:15] Winding Way South, you can tie into that 6-in and then you've got three points

[37:20] that that tower will will breathe. It will the water will fluctuate, go up and

[37:25] down and then it can disperse in three different areas or three different lines

[37:31] uh to help

[37:33] boost the pressure all the way through South.

[37:36] » But the two primary properties that they're looking locations that they're

[37:39] talking about are outside the town limits.

[37:42] » Yeah, because those those two properties actually have the ability to hook up to

[37:48] the 6-in line very very quickly. >> All right, well there's two issues that

[37:52] I see. The first is

[37:57] anybody who remembers when we were going to

[38:01] build our own water treatment plant and and

[38:04] and that sort of stuff and it was outside the town, we caught a lot of

[38:08] flak from resident from from other residents. I mean that really

[38:12] just put the to kibosh on it. You remember that?

[38:15] » [laughter] >> Very well.

[38:16] » Uh that's one and two if we were to purchase 2 acres from a

[38:21] farmer. Would we still need to annex that?

[38:27] » No, I don't I don't believe so. Um what we [clears throat] could do and

[38:32] then what and I learned this lesson from uh former superintendent Tom that's here

[38:36] and then he done this many, many times over in Anderson. Once, you know, and he

[38:41] would [cough] build well houses. He would he would find land, he would buy

[38:44] it. He was able to get anywhere from three to five acres off of farmer, but

[38:49] then all of a sudden you just let them farm all the way up to that property.

[38:54] Even though and and you never charge them anything. So, there that was a good

[38:58] lesson that I remember hearing what he done and everything and for some reason

[39:03] uh I was able to remember that. But, you could, you know, so

[39:08] they talk about a a 200 by 200 squares where the water tower would sit on it,

[39:13] which is it's not that's not a great big property, but

[39:17] it's definitely less than two acres, which is what they're asking for. So,

[39:22] that farmer would probably be able to farm at least a full acre of that. We

[39:27] might own two acres, but he would probably or she would be able to farm at

[39:32] least a full acre of that with no charge to

[39:36] the town because they're going to we're going to buy that. I mean,

[39:40] we're not going to develop that >> Right.

[39:42] » two acres. I mean, we just want to be able to get into it, be able to check

[39:46] the water tower, be the accessible to uh do whatever kind of maintenance that we

[39:51] might have to do to it and then just back right out.

[39:55] » So, what obligations would we have with the city of Anderson?

[39:58] » I don't know that we would have any of that. [clears throat] Now, the only

[40:01] thing that they have out around us is they have water rights.

[40:07] That's all that they have. They have they have encompassed us. Now, we can

[40:10] actually um >> [clears throat]

[40:14] » we can actually go to the uh UIRC. What's the name of the UIRC?

[40:19] Utility Regulatory Commission. And we can petition with that, and then they

[40:24] could let that go. But, we're not feeding any residents.

[40:28] We're just using that for a storage. That is not We are not claiming any more

[40:34] services. That's just our property, and we decided to put a water storage tank

[40:39] on it. That's not feeding any more residents in their area.

[40:44] You see what I'm saying? We're not taking any business from them.

[40:48] I mean, we can always check on it. But, we would be taking no There There's

[40:53] no money out of their pocket in any way that I can see.

[40:56] » [clears throat]

[41:03] [clears throat] >> I do um

[41:06] I do, but the problem is he

[41:09] he did not send me this report in an email. He gave me a link, and then I

[41:13] have to go through, and I got to put in a password and everything, because he

[41:16] said it was too big. [clears throat]

[41:19] So, um Rob has read through it. I gave a copy to Catherine. I'm not sure she read

[41:24] through it or not, but like I said, there's a lot of information in there

[41:27] that's just absolutely redundant. He says three or four times in there is the

[41:31] same information. Um believe it or not, you actually

[41:35] read through it actually quite quickly. >> Patty, we could probably You could

[41:39] probably get a thumb drive and download it off his computer,

[41:42] and that way you'd have a copy of it and everything like that.

[41:44] » It's It's important for both you and and Patty to to review it, because one,

[41:49] you're water sewer, and two, if we're talking about the parks.

[41:53] » Yeah. Okay.

[41:55] » So, um in this in the

[41:58] for this hydraulic model, um

[42:03] it came to us very late. And I won't go into the details of that,

[42:08] but anyway, what we are We're to do is we're going to uh

[42:12] slow walk this and make sure that this professional engineers report is what

[42:17] they're calling it, the PER, is finalized after April 1st.

[42:23] Um, before had they really not forgotten about us,

[42:28] which of our admin discussion with that engineering company, um,

[42:33] we would have looked to try to get SRF funding

[42:38] to try to get this program off the ground. Had I gotten

[42:41] this back in maybe December or even early January,

[42:45] we could have decided whether we really want to

[42:49] look at a site, really really dive into it to see how

[42:53] quickly we might want to move on to this.

[42:56] Um, some of the other things that is noted in this report is the fact that we

[43:01] do not have the extra overhead storage or underground

[43:05] storage of our our normal capacity of one day.

[43:09] We have 60 gallon 60,000 gallon water tower and that's it. Right now, I mean,

[43:14] this is our lower this is our low time. We are using around 150,000 gallons a

[43:19] day. If we put up a 250,000 gallon tank, that

[43:23] gives us 310 overhead storage. Which

[43:28] even on the biggest day that we've ever done was 288,000.

[43:32] That's a day that we were actually flushing hydrants.

[43:35] 310 would get us no problem. We would We would meet those

[43:40] requirements by the 10 state standards as they quote in the report.

[43:46] So, the fire protection, the water pressure for the residents, and the

[43:50] overhead storage in case of fire emergencies, which over

[43:54] the last year we found a lot of those, too.

[43:56] » So. >> Last week.

[43:58] » Yeah. So.

[44:01] Um, like I said, I've I've only gotten the one copy there. We'll try to get a

[44:04] thumb drive and to those all to you. Like I said, I have I have written down

[44:09] some information on it that is wrong and so that they need to they need to adjust

[44:15] those things and they would have all that information had they contacted us.

[44:19] So. >> Okay.

[44:21] » Other than that, I think I'm done. >> Do you have any questions for me?

[44:25] » Any questions for Mr. Ferguson? >> All right.

[44:29] » Thank you.

[44:33] » All right, let's move on to our member reports, Mr. Reed.

[44:37] » No member report. >> Ms. Faron?

[44:39] » I do have something. First, >> [snorts]

[44:41] » Don took care of most of it. Um as far as the um

[44:46] Edgewood dining facility, we are having a St. Patrick's Day

[44:50] tomorrow as is the world and um you're all welcome to come out. We're We're

[44:54] celebrating all day from 11:00 to 8:00. It'll be fun.

[44:59] Um we're having an Easter buffet, which Arthur signed up for just tonight.

[45:04] Um that'll be on Easter day from um 3:00 or 11:00 to 3:00.

[45:10] And we are having the fundraiser for our pool, the big one.

[45:15] Um June 26th, um lunch and sign

[45:19] registration at noon and golfing at 1:00.

[45:23] We're hoping to get 21 teams and have a good time and raise some money

[45:28] for our pool. And um then we're

[45:33] also planning an adult prom, which

[45:37] it's a it's a fun idea uh on June 27th and that will be a fun thing. We'll get

[45:43] a lot of publicity out there about it. And if you haven't noticed, there is um

[45:48] uh Scatterfield and 10th, we have a big um digital

[45:53] uh billboard going um to

[45:56] make sure people [clears throat] know that we're out here.

[45:58] So. We were told we needed more advertising.

[46:02] We're doing it, but we're doing it through the Chamber of Commerce, which

[46:04] is a lot less expensive than just going to

[46:09] a billboard company. So.

[46:13] It's all I have. >> Tell us a little more about the adult

[46:15] prom. >> The adult prom? It's Well, we're going

[46:18] to have dancing and food, and it's it's going to be like a prom.

[46:22] » Black tie affair? >> It's going to be dress up, yes. Yes.

[46:27] » You coming to that? >> I don't dance.

[46:29] » Well, you don't have to. You can get up there and sing.

[46:34] » Oh lord, I'd rather you dance. >> [laughter]

[46:37] » We just want to get something going that's that's fun for the community and

[46:41] help raise some money. >> fundraiser?

[46:43] » Yep, another fundraiser. We have the DJ secured already, and he's free of

[46:47] charge, so. >> [clears throat]

[46:50] » Keep on. >> Did you Did you mention the awning

[46:52] replacement? >> No, I did not.

[46:54] That's exciting. I should have mentioned that. Um our awning, I don't know if

[46:58] many of you have noticed it [clears throat] over the patio is like

[47:01] shredded. Um last year it was hit by one of the big storms and got a big hole in

[47:06] it. And um I filed with our insurance company, which has taken a bit, but um

[47:13] they have agreed to pay for replacement of it, and we're going to put a a metal

[47:17] roof on it. So, that we won't have the ripping, shredding, tearing. Uh if you

[47:22] go look now, we have I think three big sunlights. Um

[47:27] What do you call them? >> Tarps?

[47:30] » No, no, the op- openings. Skylights. >> Skylights, yeah.

[47:34] » Um >> Oh, I see what you

[47:35] » Yeah, they're just they're just amazing too. But uh we don't really like a

[47:39] skylight. We'd like to have it covered, so um

[47:42] we just got that word, and hopefully in the next week or so, if

[47:47] the weather cooperates, [laughter] um they'll be able to tear the rest of

[47:50] the um awning down, get busy on our metal roof.

[47:56] » Is that it? >> Mhm.

[47:57] » Okay. Mr. Faron. >> Yes, I do have a report regarding

[48:02] uh structures that the town owns located at 420 Layton Road.

[48:08] Um there are three structures there. There is a house that was built in 1904.

[48:14] There's a concrete block building that I'm just

[48:18] guessing was used for golf course maintenance or storage of carts or

[48:23] something of that nature. It's currently full of junk.

[48:27] And then there's a small concrete um structure at the back of the property

[48:33] that you know, I don't know, tool shed or

[48:36] something of that nature. So, um

[48:40] Mr. Austin, Mr. Pickett, and myself met with Schroyer

[48:45] um Demolition uh about 3 weeks ago to tour

[48:49] the properties and for him to to uh prepare an estimate for demolishing all

[48:55] three structures, which would include removing the foundations,

[49:00] hauling everything away, grading the the property, seeding it,

[49:06] and straw putting straw down. So, that when he's finished, you know, you'll

[49:11] never know there was anything there. The cost for uh his estimate was

[49:16] $14,800. We had previously received an estimate

[49:21] from Rescue Demolition uh for $29,800

[49:27] for the same uh

[49:32] the removal. So,

[49:35] I think that um it's obviously a tremendous eyesore. We

[49:39] had a resident who lives across the street on Layton Road, not in the town

[49:44] of Edgewood, who was present last meeting expressing

[49:47] her concerns that this has been a topic of discussion for several years.

[49:52] And I think most of us, if not all of us, agree that we'd like to move forward

[49:57] with this project with Schroyer, who by the way does all of the city of

[50:02] Anderson's demolition. So, we have an idea of the quality of their work. Um

[50:07] so, now the question becomes, you know, where do we have the funds available to

[50:12] move forward with the project? And what I And one other thing I should

[50:17] add, um surprisingly,

[50:20] even though it adjoins the golf course, it is not town of Edgewood property.

[50:25] It's city City of Anderson. And Mr. Austin, as I recall, you

[50:30] discussed the possibility of the the city perhaps

[50:34] utilizing funds available since it was on city property, but there were not

[50:41] » Correct. I just agreed with a complete lack of complete lack of enthusiasm.

[50:45] » [laughter] >> That's [clears throat] just not a

[50:47] priority, obviously. So,

[50:51] um I think, you know, not only is it an eyesore, I think you could argue that

[50:56] it's a hazard. The the long rectangular building that's filled with every kind

[51:01] of junk you can think of is easily accessible. Windows are gone, doors

[51:07] gone. The house itself is secured and locked. Um

[51:12] and surprisingly is it Windows and everything are still intact. Um but it's

[51:18] something I think really needs to be done best interest of the town and

[51:22] certainly the residents in the immediate immediate area who have to look at that

[51:26] every day. >> Well, we've certainly met

[51:31] the requirement for getting multiple estimates because we did receive two. Um

[51:36] I did ask Ms. Tanner if she would be prepared tonight to let us know whether

[51:41] or not we could find the funds to to move forward.

[51:45] » We would to funds in the casino fund, but just don't assign any more projects

[51:51] for casino [clears throat] funds until we build that back up.

[51:56] » Okay. >> But we do have it in the fund.

[51:59] » Okay. I think moving forward with the demolition is critical for us.

[52:04] Because we cannot hold our residents accountable for having their property

[52:09] maintained, and we own property and it's not being maintained. So, we've got to

[52:13] set the example. So, um

[52:16] » That's a good question. What would happen with that land then

[52:20] once it's demo? Are there any ideas since it's city of

[52:23] Anderson, but yet being looked at?

[52:26] » It is the city of Anderson, but it is owned by the town of Edgewood.

[52:30] » Okay. >> And it's part of the golf course

[52:32] property. It's right next to the barn where we we keep all the equipment. So,

[52:37] it would probably just become more of the golf course.

[52:40] » So, the town of Edgewood would maintain the the property then?

[52:43] » The golf course would maintain the property. Yeah. Yeah.

[52:47] And I think it's worth noting that that's an an additional enhancement to

[52:51] the golf course and for people playing, especially if we're looking for new

[52:56] membership, they're not going to have to drive by that mess that's there now. So.

[53:01] » Okay. >> Dale?

[53:04] » There is a building here [clears throat] at the rear of the property

[53:07] that is that part of the property you're taking down?

[53:10] » Yes, that small white cinder block building.

[53:14] » No, it's on the back. >> Yeah, way out the very back.

[53:17] There's three properties on there and they're going to take all three.

[53:20] » Three buildings. >> Three buildings, I'm sorry.

[53:22] » This building's down. >> They'll take whatever's there out.

[53:25] » Cuz we >> You're saying it's the one you guys took

[53:27] down before? >> Yeah, we cut the property department cut

[53:29] it down and cut it in pieces and It was a garage and that's where we

[53:34] practiced. >> We'll have to get with them cuz we

[53:36] didn't see it out there. We didn't know. It must have been covered up with the

[53:39] weeds and stuff. >> It Yeah, probably.

[53:41] » Yeah, okay. >> All right.

[53:44] » We'll drag it out there. >> Okay.

[53:49] Do you have a motion to want to move forward?

[53:53] » Yes, I would I'd like to make a motion that we approve the estimate provided by

[53:58] Schroyer Demolition in the amount of $14,800

[54:03] um to allow us to demolish all of the structures on that particular parcel.

[54:10] » Second. >> Okay. Oh, you go first. You go.

[54:12] » All right, it's been moved and properly second that we move forward with the

[54:16] demolition of property at 420 Layton Road.

[54:20] Any questions? Hearing none, all in favor say I.

[54:24] » I. >> Those opposed same sign.

[54:27] All right. >> Okay.

[54:30] » Motion passed. So, Mr. Faron will

[54:34] as building commissioner we'll leave that up to you to

[54:37] » I will. >> resolve this issue.

[54:38] » Yes. >> Okay.

[54:40] All right. Um Mr. Faron, you had some other

[54:43] concerns about >> Yes. You know the there's a big burn

[54:48] pile on the opposite end

[54:51] on the south side of the golf course.

[54:53] » Yes. >> It's pretty I don't know.

[54:55] » I've often wondered about >> Yeah, and and fire regulations say that

[55:00] we're supposed to burn in a contained area and that's open and it's

[55:05] really not very pretty. >> No.

[55:08] » So, I don't know. >> call me

[55:10] » I'm sorry. >> Chuck would always call me say, "I'm

[55:12] going to burn this." He in the past he has.

[55:16] » Well, >> and it's it's quite a bad pile.

[55:19] And then we would be aware [clears throat] that it's burning and

[55:21] you know and be ready to go if anything happened.

[55:24] » I yeah, I just it doesn't look >> From what you're saying from what you're

[55:28] saying it's not aesthetic from what you're saying is Chuck has called you in

[55:31] the past when he's going to burn. So, I guess we just need to coordinate and if

[55:35] we have to knock that down that pile down a little bit and burn part of it

[55:39] and >> Well,

[55:42] if it's that much of an eyesore, then

[55:47] it and if it and if it's not if it's not contained the way our ordinance reads,

[55:53] then I would say we should probably have a have a water truck sitting out there

[55:57] while he's burning it. >> I agree and I think we also might

[56:00] consider moving the location of debris because

[56:05] » Yeah, it's right there. >> right in the you know, in between number

[56:08] nine and 10 fairways, it's terrible eyesore. I never could

[56:12] understand why that spot was selected. So, I think

[56:16] a a more

[56:18] isolated area maybe over by the maintenance barn or somewhere behind a

[56:24] structure where it's it's not an eyesore.

[56:26] » Maybe in the backyard of that house over there.

[56:28] » Well, >> [laughter]

[56:29] » maybe. We own the property.

[56:37] » I spoke to Chuck just last week about this and he's got plans to make it to do

[56:41] the burn. He's just waiting for the weather to the

[56:44] the wind to cut down and all that. And and where it's at, honestly, is is as

[56:48] wide open as you can get. >> Yeah, that's true.

[56:51] » The only the other places on the golf course that are isolated are too close

[56:54] to residents. >> Okay.

[56:58] » Yeah, I did a burn this week because of the

[57:00] » But but but our ordinance definitely calls for

[57:03] us having a water source. [clears throat] Yeah, so I would say we

[57:07] should probably have a fire truck standing by.

[57:10] » Elias is gone. >> Okay.

[57:13] Right.

[57:15] Okay. Can you talk to him and then ask him to

[57:21] make sure he reaches out? Okay, thank you.

[57:24] All right. Anything else, Mr. Payne?

[57:26] » No. >> Okay.

[57:28] Mr. Pickens. >> Uh

[57:31] I just got one thing. I spoke to Don a little bit the other day when we had the

[57:36] the big winds and trees falling and we were cutting limbs up out in the street

[57:41] and dragging them out because it was in front of my house. And uh

[57:45] they had uh trash cans over at the park on Winding Way that blew over

[57:51] and [clears throat] dumped their contents throughout the basketball goal

[57:55] area, the basketball court, and the tennis courts. Well, the problem is that

[58:00] predominantly the contents would be waste from animals when people are

[58:04] walking. They take their little bag and tie it up and throw in there.

[58:08] And I went, "Oh, you know, to tell you the truth we need a a a couple of waste

[58:13] stations where people have the opportunity to

[58:16] throw that waste and get that done and then we can dump

[58:21] those out. And that way it's not in the trash cans, it doesn't blow away, it's

[58:24] on a pole that's in the ground. And then talking with Don today it actually would

[58:29] provide part of our service. Would you like to speak on that?

[58:33] » Yeah, I'll I'll do that. >> I know. I was going to

[58:36] » Remind me. I forgot about that earlier. Um one of the things

[58:41] uh with my job also is uh

[58:43] storm water. So, we always have to deal with storm water and all the issues that

[58:47] come along with that. Um one of the things with our our meeting that we had

[58:52] today is is we have to do uh public outreach. So, one of the things we have

[58:57] to we have to have three uh documents on file and I'm going to get those to Rob

[59:01] and he's going to have those on the website. So, any resident can

[59:06] click on that and find that out. Also, um they want to do we have to do

[59:11] outreach programs. Well, if we put these little stations in then we can we can

[59:16] either put like our uh website on the side of it or we can have a a QR code on

[59:21] it and then they can go straight to the storm water section and they can look up

[59:27] all the different things. Storm water can get very very picky as well. As a

[59:31] matter of fact, it doesn't make any sense to me, but one

[59:35] of the two of the things that they want is they want to make sure that nobody's

[59:38] washing their car in their driveway. They say that's almost illegal.

[59:42] They don't want soap going down into the just the storm drain.

[59:47] Um another thing is is at the annual meeting last year, I don't know if you

[59:50] remember them talking about, but they wanted residents to pick up their dog in

[59:54] their own personal yards. And I thought that was a little ridiculous cuz what

[59:58] are we doing with the natural animals? We have animals where who's picking up

[1:00:03] after them? But these are these are the types of things that we had

[1:00:08] Patty goes to and Catherine and I go to to listen to and we got to have so many

[1:00:12] hours of this. So this is some of the other stuff that we got to do. So if we

[1:00:17] get those put in, which as long as the residents use them, I'll

[1:00:21] be happy to install them cuz like I said up here when it rains, all there's a

[1:00:25] nice slurry in the bottom of those. >> Well, that's the those yeah, those the

[1:00:29] ones that were we put are the metal containers that are breathable

[1:00:33] and we'll have a bag in there and they'll just be pull the bag and dump.

[1:00:37] And I know I'll appreciate when I'm walking the dog and I don't have to

[1:00:40] carry it around all the way home. >> Oh, they don't they'll find a they'll

[1:00:44] find a trash can to put it in. >> Um they ain't taking it. So are you

[1:00:47] talking about strategically placing them in all the parks?

[1:00:50] » Yes. Yes.

[1:00:53] » That's a good idea. Okay. >> I did uh

[1:00:58] do a quick perusal. We're looking at 200 to 300 dollars a pole

[1:01:03] for those. So >> Which we should have that in the parks

[1:01:07] budget. >> Right.

[1:01:09] » Shouldn't be that shouldn't uh that shouldn't affect us much.

[1:01:13] » All right, are you going to do some more research and bring us back a proposal?

[1:01:16] » Yeah, I'll I'll do that and I'll bring it back a proposal on the total cost and

[1:01:19] the number. >> Okay.

[1:01:20] » And then we're good to go. Didn't it have in our

[1:01:24] kind of I don't know what to call them, the rules for Edgewood,

[1:01:28] that you're not even supposed to have dogs in the park?

[1:01:30] » You're not. Where we'd put them we wouldn't put them

[1:01:33] in the park themselves, we would put them on the right next to the street. So

[1:01:38] as the people are walking down like if you're walking down Winding Way

[1:01:41] and you can just dump it right there. And it wouldn't be in like on Winding

[1:01:46] Way, we definitely wouldn't put them right next to the basketball court or

[1:01:50] right next to the shelter house or even at Redwood Park we wouldn't put it right

[1:01:53] next to where all the the kids will play. We want to put it a little bit

[1:01:58] out, but we have to put it on community property somewhere

[1:02:01] unless anybody wants to volunteer their house.

[1:02:05] Me [clears throat] neither. >> As far as far as dogs being in the park,

[1:02:08] you know, when when it uh in the summertime when when people are

[1:02:13] really out, you you actually see very very few people with their dog out in

[1:02:17] the park. These are These are mainly the uh

[1:02:20] » Yeah.

[1:02:23] » Okay.

[1:02:25] All right, that's all. Anything else? Okay.

[1:02:28] Mr. Austin. >> Uh pretty quiet on the legal front. I

[1:02:33] did [clears throat] talk to Todd Fisher, the city

[1:02:36] uh building commissioner about the possibility of providing funds for the

[1:02:41] demolition of Latins. And basically I was told that

[1:02:45] that uh they they would consider demolition, but they would charge

[1:02:49] [clears throat] the town for everything they would do.

[1:02:52] So there at one time there were blight elimination funds.

[1:02:56] That was a federal program. And I think there were substantial dollars allocated

[1:03:01] to the city for blight elimination projects, but those funds are no longer

[1:03:06] available. So there's no opportunity like that. So hence,

[1:03:09] » [snorts] >> you know, proceeding with our own funds

[1:03:12] uh for that demolition. But that's that's an excellent price and that

[1:03:16] contractor comes highly recommended. So I think that's a good way to proceed. So

[1:03:19] good good work everybody in that. And nothing further. Thank you.

[1:03:23] » Okay. All right.

[1:03:26] Mr. Servis, you're back up. >> I don't have anything additional

[1:03:29] tonight. >> Okay.

[1:03:32] All right. Ms. Tanner, clerk's report.

[1:03:48] » The only thing I have is that most of you know my deputy court treasurer and

[1:03:53] my accounting clerk are going to retire [clears throat] at the end of April.

[1:03:56] And Mr. Pickett was kind enough to help

[1:04:00] along with some town employees. We did post the jobs on our website, social

[1:04:06] media, and we also put it on indeed. And we did

[1:04:10] have several applicants. And Mr. Pickett and myself interviewed

[1:04:15] these various people. And we were able to narrow it down to two people.

[1:04:20] And we both agreed and we offered them the positions.

[1:04:23] And we're going to be doing a background

[1:04:26] check. And I don't want to give the names out until there's not a problem

[1:04:30] with the background check. But they plan to start around April 6th to do

[1:04:34] training. And they both seem qualified to be able

[1:04:39] to pick up on the job tasks. And I think I think they'll be good employees for

[1:04:44] the town. That's

[1:04:47] » Um the background check going to be done through

[1:04:50] » Chad. >> [clears throat]

[1:04:50] » Chad. >> Yes.

[1:04:52] » Okay.

[1:04:55] » Does anyone have any questions?

[1:04:59] Okay.

[1:05:06] » Mr. Daniels, did you ever get your application turned in?

[1:05:10] » No, I still have it here now. >> Okay.

[1:05:15] » Do I just submit it to Jen? >> No,

[1:05:18] give it to Ms. Tanner.

[1:05:23] All right. Okay, old business.

[1:05:27] Anybody have any old business?

[1:05:33] Okay, I have two.

[1:05:36] » [clears throat] >> Julie Armington Memorial, we had talked

[1:05:40] about doing something in honor of her memory.

[1:05:45] Where where we at with that? >> Actually, I had spoken to her daughter

[1:05:49] and her son. They want to plant a tree and they've talked to Chuck about it, so

[1:05:53] that they don't want a lot of showy stuff or a plaque because she was

[1:05:58] not like that. So, they're going to have a tree planted sometime

[1:06:03] this spring. >> Okay, in one of the parks?

[1:06:06] » Well, no. On the golf course.

[1:06:09] » Yeah, that's right. golf course Yeah, that's her love you.

[1:06:12] Okay. Okay.

[1:06:16] All right. No,

[1:06:19] cuz we already talked about Layton Road. Okay.

[1:06:24] Any other old business?

[1:06:27] » Do you want to talk about the time meeting time?

[1:06:30] » That's under new business. >> It's new business. Never mind.

[1:06:32] » [laughter] >> I think we addressed it before.

[1:06:35] » Any other old business?

[1:06:39] Okay, new business. All right.

[1:06:42] Um in our executive session

[1:06:47] couple of weeks ago the members of the council

[1:06:52] we talked about the possibility of moving our meeting time from 5:00 to

[1:06:57] 6:00. Um

[1:07:01] and we think that by moving the time from 5:00 to 6:00 it would give

[1:07:06] obviously would give more of our residents an opportunity to get home

[1:07:10] from work, get situated, and and attend our sessions. And it

[1:07:15] would also help us as well. Um so,

[1:07:19] unless there's some objection, probably starting in April, we will move

[1:07:24] our meeting time to 6:00. Uh same day of the month, um but instead

[1:07:30] of 5:00, it will be 6:00. Now, I know that probably we'll run a foul of the

[1:07:35] fire department because you guys you have your meeting at 6:00. Yeah.

[1:07:43] And to be honest with you, we talked about that. I didn't even think about

[1:07:46] the fact that you guys met at 6:00 on Monday.

[1:07:49] So. My apologies.

[1:07:52] Okay.

[1:07:55] Any members I mean any residents see any objections to that? You see

[1:08:02] What are you smiling for, Brian?

[1:08:06] » You know.

[1:08:08] » Okay. All right. So, with no objection then April we'll start

[1:08:14] our meetings at 6:00. And then Mr. Okay?

[1:08:20] » Sounds good. >> All right. Any other new business?

[1:08:27] All right. Okay. We'll move on to comments and

[1:08:30] questions. Um

[1:08:33] if you have any comments and questions, I would ask that you would keep them to

[1:08:37] two to three minutes. And depending on the question that you

[1:08:41] might pose tonight, it's a possibility that you might not get an answer uh

[1:08:46] because we may not be in a position to be able to to to give you an answer, but

[1:08:50] you certainly will get one within a reasonable time frame. So, with that, I

[1:08:54] will open the floor up for any of our guests who have any questions or or

[1:09:00] comments.

[1:09:07] Hearing none? Okay.

[1:09:11] All right. Then we'll move on to

[1:09:14] approval of the minutes of the February Council meeting.

[1:09:18] » Move that the minutes be approved as presented.

[1:09:21] » Second. >> All those in favor, say aye.

[1:09:24] » Aye. >> Those opposed?

[1:09:27] And the um

[1:09:31] » Register >> Yeah, register of claims.

[1:09:35] » So moved. >> Okay, it's moved and seconded.

[1:09:39] » Second. >> Okay, moved and seconded. All those in

[1:09:41] favor, say aye. >> Aye.

[1:09:43] » Those opposed?

[1:09:46] Mr. Pierce, um thank you. Um we appreciate that you're obviously a

[1:09:51] man of your word because when we met, you know, you said that you would be

[1:09:54] here tonight and so we we certainly appreciate that. And hopefully with us

[1:09:58] moving our meetings to 6:00 >> o'clock

[1:10:00] » that will allow you >> You know, you say I I was sitting here

[1:10:02] with Brian again. That's probably the something great to me. And I'll try to

[1:10:05] uh come maybe once a quarter. >> Okay. Well, our our meetings are always

[1:10:09] open to you. You're always welcome. Okay.

[1:10:11] All right. Hearing none, I will entertain a motion

[1:10:14] to adjourn. >> So moved.

[1:10:17] » I would like to move that we adjourn.

[1:10:21] » Second. >> All those All right.

Town Council Meeting - March 16, 2026

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