[0:03] I stand for the pledge, please.

[0:10] To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it

[0:15] stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice

[0:21] for all.

[0:37] Okay. Uh, July 7th, 2026 town council meeting.

[0:45] » Yeah. You had a chance to read the minutes?

[0:47] » I have. I'll make a motion that we accept them as presented.

[0:52] » I'll second it. All in favor? I >> I

[0:57] make reconciliation for May 2020 20 26 >> I went over it signed it so I make a

[1:05] motion we accept it as presented >> second it all in favor

[1:10] » I >> I

[1:13] roll allowance docket for the month of June 2026

[1:18] » make a motion we accept it >> all in favor

[1:20] » I >> I

[1:23] over Time for

[1:41] sleep

[1:44] overtime for the month of June 2026. >> Did I miss it?

[2:00] I don't have a copy of it. Do you? >> Yes, you do.

[2:30] Make a motion we accept it as presented. >> Second.

[2:35] » All in favor? I >> I

[2:39] city building Tim installed GPS units. Need to get with

[2:46] Samarah to discuss options for fire trucks with the three units. Did not

[2:52] have the correct gloves.

[2:57] » We took them out. What happened to engine 31?

[3:00] Engine 31 and Engine 32 both fell on their face. [snorts]

[3:07] Um, all GPS units are yanked out currently.

[3:12] And um, engine 32 Selki told me to cycle the computer several times, see if it

[3:21] works. If not, bring it in. They'll work on it. But 31, uh, the Sam unit requires

[3:27] two volts. transmission takes five and the way it was hooked up

[3:32] um it robbed the bolts away from the transmission that's why it fell on space

[3:37] and would not pump. So currently nothing is installed

[3:43] » but it is re the engine is repaired. >> Yeah, there's a bill they charge us for

[3:48] repairing it. >> Okay.

[3:51] Do you know how much?

[3:57] » Yes.

[4:06] And I do know when was it 38?

[4:10] » You said all the trucks that have that master switch could create problems.

[4:16] » There you go. >> Because it kills the power to

[4:18] everything. That's the whole point of the master switch.

[4:20] » Yeah. >> In 38, he couldn't hardly get it to

[4:22] cycle at all. >> As far as when he turned it on, the GPS

[4:26] unit wouldn't come up.

[4:35] $675.52. >> Okay.

[4:39] I was asked if that was going to fall back to the fire department and I don't

[4:44] think it should. I think it the town should may not have.

[4:48] » We have a credit with sulking right now. It's not going to go against the fire

[4:50] department. >> Okay. We have a credit.

[4:52] » Yeah. >> Okay.

[4:58] Okay, we have four banners ordered in here.

[5:00] » Wait, let's So,

[5:05] we've installed these, but there's never been

[5:11] a formal policy adopted

[5:17] for the employees to know and why they're there and why they're being

[5:22] used. We've never We've never adopted a policy.

[5:27] We looked at one. >> You guys looked at one, but you didn't.

[5:30] » But but it was tabled or something. We'd never

[5:34] » And I think that should have happened before they

[5:38] were installed, but

[5:43] » So, you want me to have it for the next meeting?

[5:46] » Yeah, I we should have had it tonight, but

[6:02] We got four. >> So, how are we going to

[6:07] correct this or do we need to just leave them off the fire trucks that have the

[6:13] the master switch? We can't.

[6:18] Sam Sarah will not work that way.

[6:24] » Well, we can't we can't keep taking these trucks out of service either.

[6:29] » Let me give them a call and let me talk to them because there they have units

[6:33] that don't hook into your engine. What all that means is it's not going to read

[6:37] all your engine stuff, all your cuz you can see how much gas is in one

[6:44] of the vehicles. You can see when their oil needs changed. All that's what is in

[6:49] the plug right now. But they have units that do not do that. And I think that's

[6:53] what we could put on the fire trucks if you want that. But let me talk to him so

[6:57] I can talk intelligent about it.

[7:06] » I guess

[7:21] Have there been any issues with any of the other vehicles?

[7:27] » No. >> Any other?

[7:31] » I just drove my dump truck today, so for the first time. So, I don't know. It

[7:34] worked fine. It has it doesn't have a master switch, but it has the same type

[7:37] of transmission. So, >> didn't have any issue.

[7:41] » Not today. Okay. That's the first time I drove it

[7:43] » around. We I moved some stuff around and got in a new building. So,

[7:51] » okay. I guess >> and I don't have anything hooked up fire

[7:55] station. I yanked them all out because I I didn't want the liability on me and

[7:59] I'm sure they would have put on you guys if we have a truck going down the

[8:01] middle. >> My son was driving it Saturday.

[8:05] and then limp it back to the fire station with zero power.

[8:10] That's a hell of a liability. >> Yeah.

[8:13] » Burn somebody's house down.

[8:21] » We have four banners ordered. Need one more to create an order.

[8:26] » Five. We need it now. >> How long will it take if you get that

[8:30] big one to make them? It'll just take a couple weeks after they get approved.

[8:35] » Okay.

[8:41] » Electronic sign in progress. Waiting on Joe for electrical information.

[8:46] » Joe came today. He looked at he looked at all the um electrical stuff. He says

[8:51] he'll have to run two new lines from our box in here. Um two dedicated lines

[8:57] because that's what it requires. and he doesn't see a problem with it.

[9:02] They told me not to move forward with the electrical until they get the

[9:05] approval from the county for

[9:10] permit.

[9:14] » So, >> Joe's not doing anything else.

[9:16] » Area plan. >> Area plan.

[9:25] » Need to appoint a new edit representative.

[9:30] I will step up and take that position. Well, I will. I'll volunteer.

[9:45] » I'll send your information to Laura then.

[9:47] » Okay.

[9:51] Autumn from 704 North Perley asking the town to

[9:56] put up a sign at her rental house for her autistic child.

[10:04] Well, she was supposed to be here, but

[10:15] » don't think it'd be a bad thing, but >> then you might be putting them all over

[10:19] town. >> Yeah.

[10:21] » Yeah, that'd be the trouble. >> And the reason I put rental house, I

[10:25] mean, she who knows how long they're going to live there.

[10:27] » Okay. >> We'd have to pay for post a sign and

[10:31] » put in their yard. We're responsible for it. She moves

[10:35] tomorrow. Mhm. I mean, and then I mean, I'm not saying I'm not against it, but

[10:39] no, >> we're going to be putting it on every

[10:40] road, every house, like you know,

[10:47] [snorts]

[10:51] » that in knowledge, I'd like to just say no.

[10:55] [snorts]

[10:57] Unless they want to pay for the sign and

[11:02] » there's a formal request we have to >> Yeah.

[11:05] » Yeah. Just table. [clears throat] >> Yeah. She she called and

[11:08] » want to be on the agenda and she's not here.

[11:10] » She's not here. So, >> okay.

[11:11] » Table it.

[11:17] » Marcia conference in Michigan City July 16th. I mean 12th to 16th.

[11:32] letter from an attorney concerning property damage.

[11:36] » Andy, you want to tell Jason about that?

[11:40] Because I told Jason it wasn't even this property that they have on this letter.

[11:43] » Yeah. Yeah. It's not even that property across the street down one. So, we've

[11:50] not even dug on. How about I just respond until ask them to provide

[11:54] verification of the damage and go from there.

[12:13] Discuss a park board to be created, a plan, and submit to the town boards

[12:21] for approval.

[12:29] » Was there one in the past? >> There was one in the past.

[12:33] » How many were on it? >> I think three, but I'm not positive.

[12:37] Three or four.

[12:46] Got one. >> Got one right there.

[12:48] » Yeah. >> President right there.

[12:57] » You can be the ring leader. [laughter]

[13:00] » I spoke to her after the last meeting and

[13:02] » you need to find you more. >> I'm willing. I'll help her. Like I told

[13:05] her, I'll help her if she needs anything. She can just come one of us

[13:08] and we would help her during the day or something if she needs supplies or

[13:11] something. So, I've already reached out to her to, you know, offer that hand if

[13:15] she needed it. >> I got one in a pos.

[13:17] [clears throat and snorts] >> I mean, I'm willing to go down and do

[13:20] physical labor and

[13:24] » Saturday guy that needs to work off some stuff, too. So,

[13:27] » Saturday, >> no,

[13:30] he's he's needs to work off some stuff for us. So, he would be willing to help

[13:34] out. >> Saturday morning that she had couple

[13:37] others that are willing to to help. And I think

[13:41] Maybe one of them would even I think she'd probably sat on the board too if

[13:45] you >> Yeah, she would probably.

[13:49] » Okay, I can move forward. >> You can move forward.

[13:53] » I just I just need a plan so I know the spending thing. I can't let you guys

[13:58] go over to the hardware store and just buy anything. You have to come through

[14:00] us and just let it work that way. Even [snorts] though it's the $3,000

[14:05] from the grant, I still need to allocate where it goes.

[14:10] » Okay.

[14:13] I'd like to discuss something as far as with with the parks. Um

[14:20] July the 4th, and I talked a little bit to you, Jeff.

[14:25] Um, permission was given to go down and set fireworks off at the Bulld.

[14:34] First of all, they just they had the whole bull diamond. They could have used

[14:37] it. They used the parking lot right next to the house there and ended up setting

[14:42] fireworks off on houses and everything else. However, I did look and there's an

[14:48] ordinance that prevents fireworks in the in the parks.

[14:53] And so I think in the future we need to

[14:59] enforce that or you know I think it left.

[15:02] » Who gave permission? >> Huh?

[15:03] » Who gave permission? >> Apparently

[15:06] » it's not me. >> Okay. I just talked to Jeff that night

[15:11] during it. I thought it it left us in a real We could have been in a real legal

[15:17] problem there. Somebody hurt or burn the house down or something. So, uh, there

[15:23] is an ordinance. So, I I guess we would treat the ball diamond and that same as

[15:28] we would the park and that ordinance. So,

[15:45] it's all >> okay.

[15:49] store confirm USA

[16:10] had 22 calls for the month of June. We assisted the medics six times, fire

[16:15] department twice, had two or three welfare checks and two thefts

[16:20] and only one juvenile problem. So, see, it got better.

[16:26] Supposed to be here the end of the month to pave is what I was told. So,

[16:31] hopefully his project is done or at least the roads cut before they get

[16:35] here.

[16:38] Okay, >> we need to do something.

[16:42] » How much How much of that down there are we doing that?

[16:44] » All the way around. >> All the way around there.

[16:45] » Yeah. >> Up up up

[16:48] up up anyway from the square down there. >> Mberry Street any?

[16:52] » No, >> just around the square.

[16:54] » Just just a horseshoe. >> Yeah.

[16:57] » I think we need to look at Malbury down there at Mandy's

[17:01] and whatever needs to to get it fixed because it's just getting bigger. We're

[17:06] going to lose that. >> It's from the trash trucks.

[17:08] » Yeah, but we need to fix it. >> I'll give quotes cuz they're going to

[17:12] tear the road out. >> Yeah, we're going to cut it out. But the

[17:17] longer we go, the bigger it's getting. So, I think we need to

[17:21] » That road's been our best road. >> Yeah.

[17:23] » So, we'll get some pricing on it.

[17:30] And as far as for the fire department, we have 14 first responder runs, seven

[17:34] rescue calls, and five fire calls. >> That's the only thing I have other than

[17:39] the GPS.

[17:46] » Utilities

[17:50] [clears throat]

[17:53] » make adjustments first. Last month's leak adjustments were

[17:58] $2,5840.

[18:02] » So the reason there's two for each of those is because of

[18:06] » you guys approved it at the last meeting to do because it went over three months.

[18:08] » Yeah. Yeah. >> Make a motion we approve that.

[18:15] » All in favor? >> I

[18:22] got my report, but it's pretty much the same thing. I'll make a motion we accept

[18:27] it as presented read.

[18:31] » All in favor? >> I

[18:33] » I

[18:36] [snorts] lagoon. You want to wait that

[18:39] » lagoon >> till I'm done and let him go.

[18:51] » That'll be all right. >> Oh, I'm not the boss. Sure.

[18:56] » And the fill station and meter and stuff. I

[19:00] still still looking into that. We need to table that one more time.

[19:04] » Okay.

[19:08] » Same thing with the lateral inspections. >> India did pull a Union City's ordinance

[19:15] and a little summary of that for you to look at to see what they do.

[19:18] » I'll give you a copy. >> That shows how theirs is worded.

[19:21] » Okay. I just want to talk to some more towns

[19:26] that do it and see >> that way.

[19:28] » They've been doing it for several years and I think they've got the system down.

[19:31] So, if you're going to do it, I don't see why we'd want to reinvent the wheel.

[19:35] » Yeah, exactly.

[19:44] So, some pump compliance will be mailed out.

[19:48] » I didn't Yes, I didn't mail it out this time. So, it'll go out in next month's

[19:51] bill.

[19:56] » Had a first meeting with the zip ty. Um, Alex has already been out.

[20:03] He's all over. He's ready to dive in, but he's been busy. But he did go out

[20:08] and get all the hydrants. Put all the hydrants on there. So, now he's going to

[20:11] go around and do the pictures. You can put the pictures on there. So, we pull

[20:15] up a hydrant. You have the pictures. I think we're still going to need

[20:21] two um

[20:26] the GPS reader for like snow and if they get rode over or anything, you know, we

[20:33] can take a picture that'll be all right, but that's still not going to help us

[20:38] when there's foot of snow on the ground. So, I'll look into those two.

[20:51] And I talked to what is the guy's name? Sility guy. Jason.

[20:55] » Yes. >> I talked to him

[21:01] yesterday.

[21:04] And we got a couple other things to look into, too.

[21:09] The water extension project is going slow, but good.

[21:15] haven't hit anything. So, that's a plus.

[21:23] We got the water asset management completed and sent in.

[21:32] Our new wastewater permit is done and sent in.

[21:38] CCR2 CCR is done and sent in.

[21:46] And the compliance plan for the wastewater is

[21:50] we finished up the die testing and stuff like that. So it's done and sent in too.

[21:57] » That's this waterhead.

[22:01] » Yeah. >> So Steve, you need to sign this.

[22:21] Yeah. Can I get one of those? Is this fine?

[22:33] » Claim not. >> Wait a minute. open

[22:36] » and those quotes.

[22:43] I can get all that stuff for 1,500 bucks. And I

[22:49] need the 4-in valve now. And I need I can use these two clamps anytime, too.

[22:56] So, all the other stuff would be free. And it's over 10 grand. And them was the

[23:01] prices from two years ago out of Blue Book. So,

[23:04] » how do you get them so cheap? >> Guy bought them at an auction. The whole

[23:08] corner. He said, "If you want it, you take it all. 1,500 bucks."

[23:14] » How do we pay for it? >> Just have to write a check.

[23:22] » The only thing that's not two years old is the the 4 inch because I just bought

[23:26] one. I know how much that was. I wasn't going to call him on all these. I just

[23:30] looked up blue book and that's the in blue book. Just like these 3/4 inch shut

[23:37] off valves, they're 66 bucks a piece. 1320. There's over 20 of them. So that's

[23:42] 1320 just for those 3/4 inch valves. And that was two years ago. So they're

[23:47] probably twice that now.

[23:52] » So assume he he would invoice you. >> Yeah, he'll do whatever.

[23:57] » Invoices. sitting in. >> I got the pictures of everything. If you

[24:02] want to see the pictures of everything, but I mean, all of it's new, but this

[24:05] post valve is used, but still good, which I doubt we ever use that, but he

[24:11] said if you buy it, you get all of it. And um there's a 6-in gate valve that's

[24:17] used that we could use in the plant. You just store it. It's for indoors. It's

[24:23] not for out in your system. So, and it's 1,800 for it.

[24:31] » So, I would need a W9. >> Okay.

[24:35] » If they approve it, >> I'll make a motion we buy this stuff.

[24:40] » That's no brainer.

[24:48] And I think he has a presentation on >> and um

[24:55] think we can order us more of those yellow shirts, farmland ones. Ours are

[25:00] all That was like four or five years ago when we got them. So they're all gone.

[25:04] » I don't know where we got them through or anything.

[25:06] » Yeah, there was a shop.

[25:11] She's still in business. She just doesn't have her house.

[25:14] » Do what? >> She's still in business. She just

[25:15] doesn't have her house. >> Oh, okay.

[25:19] » Yeah. I I like seeing the employees where

[25:22] » it identifies them when they're out on the street. People know that they're

[25:26] » going through their yard or whatever. >> Identifies them an employee

[25:31] city town. I'll make a motion that we purchase

[25:36] those t-shirts for.

[25:44] » Okay. But they also get clothing allowance, too.

[25:48] » Well, but that doesn't cover the pants or boots or

[25:51] » Okay. How many shirts you want? >> How many did we get the last time?

[25:57] No, I think there was

[26:02] three or four piece cuz I had orange and and the yellow. One orange and I think

[26:08] three yellows. But I don't Well, I'll just go with the yellows.

[26:14] However many. It doesn't matter. >> Four a piece.

[26:18] » That's good for me.

[26:28] I made a motion. >> I second it.

[26:31] » Oh, okay. Okay.

[26:35] Is that

[26:40] » Hey, gentlemen. Do it. Depends on how much talking.

[26:45] » Well, I'll be brief this time because we talked about it a lot last time. Um

[26:54] um so last time I was here with you guys

[26:59] talked about um putting together something so that we could come back and

[27:04] tell you what we could do for you. U a little bit of a little bit has changed

[27:08] since uh I did a little bit of research, made some calls and everything. SRF

[27:13] doesn't have a per for you guys. So there's no per that's been finished yet.

[27:17] It does sound like your current engineer is still working on some stuff. Um,

[27:25] based on the schedule that you guys are uh turning into

[27:30] uh IDM, right? So the schedule you guys are turning into IDM. It sounds like

[27:34] they are working on a lagoon rehabilitation thing.

[27:39] But also on that same schedule they talk about

[27:43] doing some work on let's see what page it was on I highlighted on my copy. Um,

[27:51] so it looks like finishing up 81 they're going to have mechanical treatment plant

[27:58] for farmland only and mechanical treatment plant for Parker City and the

[28:01] town of farmland. Um, but then previous in the schedule

[28:05] they said that the regional one didn't seem like it was going to be a

[28:09] viability, but they're still trying to work it out to see if you guys and

[28:12] Parker City can work together on whatever that is. I know that's not what

[28:15] you want, but that's what they're proposing to ID, right? Um,

[28:21] and then they've got somewhere down here, evaluate the post collection

[28:25] system improvements for the lagoon, but they've got all everything crossed out

[28:29] because it said wastewater treatment plant collection system. They're running

[28:33] concurrent, I guess. So, they must be submitting a schedule to IDM with both

[28:38] your collection system upgrades and your wastewater treatment plan upgrades. It

[28:40] seems like based on the schedule that they have here. Um, I don't know what

[28:44] their lagoon rehabilitation option is that they're proposing. It seems like

[28:47] they're going to do one of them. What what I'm proposing to you is that we

[28:50] look at probably up to three options. There's about five different things that

[28:54] you could do. There's probably two of those at least. I'm assuming that might

[28:58] not be viable when we're looking at uh or might not be viable for you guys,

[29:02] right? So, you may there may be some like bio augmentation. That's usually if

[29:06] you're missing limits or something like that. You guys aren't missing limits.

[29:09] You're just over capacity. So, what we'd be looking at is how do we expand the

[29:13] capacity of it? And then what is IDM gonna allow you guys to do in that

[29:17] expansion capacity? Obviously, they're probably going to let you dig a bigger

[29:20] lagoon if you wanted to do it, they're probably going to let you add some type

[29:23] of mechanical treatment, not as much as a mechanical treatment plant, but some

[29:27] type of mechanical process to it, irration or whatnot like we talked

[29:30] about. Um, you would talk to the people at Coalen. We'd probably look at an

[29:35] option like that. Um, so we'd be a we'd be able to look at some stuff like that

[29:40] for you guys, but to write that addendum, we're going

[29:44] to need some of the information in the per. So, while there is some cost

[29:48] associated with it, not in the copy that you guys have, but like I've done a

[29:51] manhour estimate for it, um, we really can't begin starting on the work until

[29:56] you guys really have the peer because they've already done some of the

[30:00] background work for getting that stuff. And

[30:04] just being honest, it's going to be a little weird if you ask them for some of

[30:07] the information so that another engineer can be in working on it while you're

[30:10] still under contract with them. So, not trying to get you guys in a pickle

[30:13] there. >> Um,

[30:17] I can also say that based on the schedule that they have here, it looks

[30:22] like they're planning on just reading the schedule, having worked with Fleece

[30:26] and Vandenber in the past. Uh it looks like they're going to begin

[30:31] design at the beginning of next year, which

[30:36] means that they're probably at some point in time going to come to one of

[30:38] your guys meetings and say, "Hey, it's time for us to get started on design.

[30:41] Let's go ahead and execute a ban bond anticipation note. Have you guys done

[30:45] one of those before? It's called interim financing.

[30:48] It's where you go to the bank and you say, "Hey, we're going to do a project.

[30:52] It's going to be about this much money, but we need a little bit of the money up

[30:55] front to begin on the design works." you can start paying them. That's not

[30:58] uncommon for engineers to do to be able to get ahead of the curve and start

[31:02] doing the design early. I'm just letting you guys know so that you guys don't

[31:06] execute anything you're not ready to execute. Once you do something like that

[31:09] next to contract with them, you're going to be locked in with them. So that's

[31:14] your choice to make obviously, but that's probably what's going to happen

[31:16] toward the end of this year in the next Sorry, I got to do quick math in my

[31:21] head. Next five months, right? So, um, so because they have survey

[31:27] beginning 11207, either you guys are a paying for that out of pocket or b

[31:32] they're going to try to get you guys to do a bond anticipation note through your

[31:35] financial advisor um or interim financing. They're going to call it one

[31:39] of those two things, a ban or interim financing. Um,

[31:44] that being said, you can also do that with another design firm if you wanted

[31:47] to. That's an opportunity to select a design firm that you want to work on

[31:51] your design. But of course, you want to know what you're going to do in your

[31:54] design when you get to that point. This is probably what I have proposed to you

[31:59] guys, the proposal that you have in front of you. You know, we would want to

[32:03] do that. We would want to do that work so that we

[32:07] were ready to submit the SRF project by the SRF deadline of next year. So, we'd

[32:14] be able to submit for funding for you guys. Does that make sense?

[32:18] » Um, if you wanted to start design earlier

[32:21] than that, we could probably shorten our time window because there's not a

[32:25] there's not a ton of effort that needs to get done. We just stretched it out so

[32:29] that we'd have more time to kind of kick stuff back and forth. Um but uh you know

[32:36] if you if you wanted to move on with design early to get off your ban uh

[32:40] sewer ban not upon anticipation note different ban um but if you guys want to

[32:44] get off your sewer ban sooner and you want to start on design and everything

[32:47] with an effort to try to start into the construction season of next year which

[32:51] is going to be like after March right >> what's that [laughter]

[32:56] » after March of next year is when construction season kind of starts right

[33:00] when the ground falls out. Yeah. So, you can't really do much more before that.

[33:03] You can do some survey and stuff, but there's not a lot of construction

[33:06] companies that are going to start digging in January. So,

[33:09] » um that looks like what their schedule and everything they have, you know,

[33:14] based on and on this schedule that that your engineer gave you. Um you know,

[33:20] they've got bidding, fund closing, they've award, they have construction

[33:26] starting in 111 2028. That's probably like mobilization. So that's at the

[33:30] beginning of next next year, two years from now.

[33:33] » Wow. >> Which is when they have it. But that's

[33:35] probably So when they have bidding and everything, that's probably because fund

[33:39] closing is in 91 2027 in September of next year. That's probably if you were

[33:45] to get SRF funding, that is probably the soonest you could probably close on it

[33:49] because they'll notify you in about August. They want you to close in the

[33:52] earliest quarter that they can. So that's why they're timing it like this.

[33:57] That's how you see this here. Now, that's if you went with SRF funding, if

[34:01] you went with rural development, that funding cycle is slightly different. If

[34:04] you went with private financing, if you either had a local bank or a regional

[34:08] bank that you guys wanted to work with, because rates are going to eventually

[34:12] come down, no matter what everybody says, rates are

[34:16] eventually going to come down. And uh you know while you can get you guys are

[34:21] in a position to get a um savings on your rate because of the financial

[34:28] makeup of the town. Um you guys are eligible for okra which means you're

[34:32] you're a low to moderate income over 51% community. Um you would probably qualify

[34:38] for like a a discounted rate through SRF. There is the potential that if you

[34:42] got funding through a private bank, it could be underwritten by a by somebody

[34:46] like USDA and you could still get to that discounted rate. Like that's a

[34:50] possibility. Um, no matter what you do, obviously your payment is going to be

[34:55] determined somewhat off of your rate because you're going to be paying

[34:58] interest on all of it, but it's also going to be somewhat based on capital

[35:01] construction cost. you do a $2 million project versus a $1 million project,

[35:06] you're going to pay a lot less on a $1 million project in the grand scheme of

[35:09] things. Interest and everything included. Um,

[35:15] so that all being said, I brought this proposal to you guys.

[35:20] I don't think that you guys would want to execute anything today

[35:25] because you're still waiting on your per uh to be submitted. So, while I also

[35:31] have a contract that you guys could execute on, I don't think that it's a

[35:34] good time for you guys to do that, I think you should put it off a little bit

[35:37] and wait for your engineer to get their stuff together. It seems as though based

[35:42] on the schedule that they're going to have the per finished 81, that's what's

[35:48] on the schedule that they're submitting to IDM.

[35:50] » Okay. >> So, by next meeting, if that makes

[35:52] sense. Uh, then at least you'll have a per to look at. I'll have a PE to take a

[35:57] review what their lagoon option was if we can include that in ours or maybe

[36:02] that can be a fourth option for you to consider.

[36:05] » Does that all make sense? >> Yes.

[36:07] » Okay, >> appreciate that.

[36:08] » Um I can say that the initial cost when I

[36:13] did the main estimate was relatively high. uh we looked at it again

[36:22] and and took a big chunk of it off knowing that you guys already had a lot

[36:28] of that preliminary information. Um

[36:37] let's see. I don't really like to give out costs early, but I'll do it anyway.

[36:41] So, the initial cost was 65,000 when we looked at everything. That was the cost

[36:45] of us doing this study for you guys, verifying the information, all that type

[36:50] of stuff, knowing that we're going to have everything. We knocked 15,000 off

[36:53] of that, and we're right around 49,000 right now. Um, that's a lot of money.

[36:59] That's probably a lot more money than you guys have sitting in the bank. Um,

[37:04] but for this scope that I've given you guys,

[37:08] that's what we're looking at. We could reduce the amount of scope and we can

[37:11] talk about what that is. But that gives you something to think about over the

[37:14] next month and I can come back to you guys next month and talk to you again if

[37:19] that would be fair. >> Yes.

[37:20] » Okay. Any questions for me?

[37:25] Hopefully that was brief enough for you guys. I know it was really long last

[37:28] time. So, um I have a couple extra copies of this

[37:33] because I know you're missing a council person. So there's an extra copy for you

[37:37] and then in case your lawyer wants one. There's our proposal for that.

[37:43] » Okay. Thank you, gentlemen, very much. >> Thank you.

[37:49] » You weren't here last time. So, [laughter]

[37:56] » okay. claim docket for July 7th, 2026, $166,356.71.

[38:05] » I make the motion we accept that. [clears throat]

[38:08] » All in favor? >> I I

[38:12] resolutions and ordinances ordinance 2026-05

[38:17] amend the text of unified zones. you have a recommendation from the area

[38:23] planning commission to slightly amend the um flood flood plan ordinance.

[38:27] Basically what it is is required by FEMA so that we can still get the flood

[38:31] insurance. >> The main change is that it specifically

[38:34] lists the names of the communities. So it's basically a red tape type of a

[38:39] change but they required us to do it. So uh the area planning commission had a

[38:44] hearing. They favorably recommend that these small changes be made. This is

[38:47] just to ratify that. So >> if you want to approve it, we can do we

[38:51] can do this on just the one reading. >> So if you want to move to have the

[38:56] reading, I can do that. >> I'll make the motion we have a reading.

[39:00] » Ordinance number 2026-05, an ordinance to amend the text of the

[39:05] unified zoning ordinance of Randolph County, Indiana.

[39:12] » Motion approve it. >> Second it.

[39:15] » All in favor? >> I I

[39:25] messed up. I believe.

[39:47] » Okay. Any citizens comments?

[39:55] Nothing. Okay. Next town council meeting will be held August 4th at 6 p.m.

[40:00] Meetings.

[40:11] » I know.

[40:19] December.

[40:41] » Not completely yet. [music]

[40:56] See you, brother. >> Thank you, gentlemen, very much.

[41:06] » Marcy sent me an email, you know, and I even asked her. I was like, well, you

[41:09] know, do you still want me to come? I don't mind coming. Sure. But uh

[41:13] » so you know because you don't have your per yet, it doesn't make a whole lot of

[41:17] sense. [music] >> Yeah.

[41:20] » Then it also talks about the lagoon option not being a viable option. They

[41:24] cross that out and the two things that they're waiting on getting done. They're

[41:29] still working up the cost estimate

July 7 2026 Town Council Meeting

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