[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.