[0:08] All right, I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, to the government for which it stands, one nation under God, individual, liberty and justice for all.

[0:26] All right, roll call, please, Carrie.

[0:35] here here here all right we have a quorum and since this cooperates with me I will be

[0:47] back to the agenda since

[0:52] it's comments anyone anything all right minutes we have we have

[0:59] Yes, we have a minute from the March Fiddle 2025 Council meeting. We have a motion to approve

[1:06] Yeah, I'll make a motion motion. Collin's second

[1:14] All right, we have a motion on the second any additional discussion

[1:19] All right roll call please

[1:31] All right motion carries up next the minutes from the March 19th 2025 caucus meeting

[1:38] Do you have a motion to approve?

[1:40] I'll make the motion.

[1:41] Motion by Weber.

[1:42] Second.

[1:43] I'll second by a wall.

[1:44] Any additional discussion?

[1:46] All right roll call please.

[1:57] All right, motion carries. Currently we have nothing under unfinished business. So we'll keep moving to new business view items tonight. The first being the SD one waste water tank pink color selection.

[2:10] Yes, as he wanted to provide you with some sample selections to look at, I provided it in your packet, but I have the card in front of you at this end of the council members to look at.

[2:22] I'm recommending Alpine, but of course you can select anything from that list that you would like and think is appropriate.

[2:31] It sounds like it's going to be very visible.

[2:36] It's going to be very big and very large.

[2:38] Why don't you do some murals?

[2:43] That might be a good spot to put one.

[2:46] They have indicated to me that there will be no design option elements available to us

[2:51] and these are the only color selections.

[2:54] They might change that.

[2:56] But I have inquired about that already early on.

[2:59] Okay.

[3:00] You know, once it's done, we can suddenly go back, you know, pitch it to their board perhaps

[3:05] or, you know, I was going to suggest the Apple pooping machine myself.

[3:09] I was going to say Dave had it earlier.

[3:11] It just feels like that would be the perfect thing, right?

[3:13] What's in the tank?

[3:14] Well, it's right there on the side.

[3:17] You know, obviously, to Jill's point, it's going to be rather large.

[3:23] Um, my suggestion is barring them being willing to work with us on some kind of mural that

[3:29] we go with something as neutral as possible so that we'll hopefully just kind of blend

[3:33] into the scenery.

[3:33] Like maybe that sandy color, I don't know what to do with this but yeah.

[3:38] So what are we thinking?

[3:39] I don't think you want anything real white, you know, it'll really stand out.

[3:42] And that's what Margie had suggested, you know, but she's concerned about the dirt on it.

[3:46] Right.

[3:47] You know, I think that the dirt will be hidden more on a lighter color than a darker color,

[3:51] but that is entirely up to you out to make that determination.

[3:55] It would be like a sandy color, like gray color.

[4:00] What are we all thinking?

[4:02] I can't believe it.

[4:03] Sorry.

[4:03] Yeah, that's sad.

[4:05] Mark, did you see that?

[4:08] I think like Navajo or Pearl of the options they've given us may be summer

[4:13] will be the best choices because I think they'll be the least apprusive.

[4:16] Yeah.

[4:17] Yeah.

[4:18] Let's see.

[4:20] How about a nice...

[4:22] It's going to live here forever, so yes, you should definitely like the color.

[4:26] I don't mind Navajo or Pearl.

[4:30] Any of those are fine.

[4:33] Is everyone at least sort of along the same way as thinking that one of those brown colors would tend to blend in better?

[4:39] Yes.

[4:40] So how about if we suggest Navajo or Pearl?

[4:44] Well, if this is their position, they want you to pick.

[4:47] All right, I would I think the Navajo is the best personally. Okay. We want to write with it.

[4:54] I get that you're full. Well, it's going to be my phone either way.

[5:02] All right, everyone is good with Navajo. Yes. All right. Navajo is that's what we'll tell them.

[5:08] Perfect. Thank you very much.

[5:11] I will pass that on and I will ask about some very exciting mural opportunity in the future,

[5:17] but I didn't inquire about that previously,

[5:19] and I said no.

[5:20] All right.

[5:21] Up next, municipal order 0-1-2025,

[5:24] regarding disposal of surplus property.

[5:26] If you would, sir.

[5:28] Yes, sir, municipal order 0-1-2025,

[5:31] in order declaring surplus property

[5:33] and authorizing disposal of such property

[5:36] by destruction and indoor recycling

[5:38] and exhibit A attached to the MO

[5:41] identifies the surplus property.

[5:45] The only thing I'd like to know is

[5:47] what is the plan to get rid of the tasers?

[5:49] Do will they be auctioned to another police agency?

[5:52] Yes.

[5:53] We're going to put them on gov deals and be available

[5:55] for law enforcement agencies only to get on.

[5:59] Don't let my wife sneak in.

[6:01] That would be my primary.

[6:03] They still work.

[6:05] What about our COPS program or council law patrol?

[6:13] We get them one on each end.

[6:15] Yeah.

[6:17] Yeah, it's basically the whole thing on the list is there's a desktop or there's soft on lockers old lockers from the

[6:26] Police Department bathroom that we are remodeling and that's it

[6:32] Okay, do we have a motion to approve municipal order of one twenty-twenty-five regards the disposal of surplus private?

[6:40] More of motion by with do we have a second?

[6:43] Second five all are sorry by the Collins. Yeah, I'm losing it any of this will discussion. No all right roll call please

[6:58] All right interlocal agreement with city of Kent and Vale for the provision of fire EMS services

[7:04] Yeah, and I'll refer to a councilman Weber from the finance committee who you discussed this proposal

[7:10] Okay, this this one here is as we stay saying as we spoke last council meeting

[7:18] I forgot the exact numbers, but we don't need to go with this, but I would offer that we

[7:28] Suggest that we go ahead and prove this

[7:30] With those numbers. So just for folks watching at home these interlocal agreements are essentially just an arrangement with our neighbors and our case for us to

[7:40] provide our fire and EMS services to them for fee.

[7:44] We've been doing this for quite a while and, you know,

[7:47] this just basically formalizes it and makes sure that we're getting paid.

[7:51] So we have a motion by Weber.

[7:55] Again, member of the finance committee.

[7:56] There are these.

[7:57] Do we have a second?

[7:58] Second, Wessels.

[7:59] The other member of the finance committee.

[8:01] Any additional discussion?

[8:05] All right.

[8:05] Roll call, please.

[8:09] Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, all right

[8:15] Those carries municipal order O2 2025 regarding fire and EMS service contract with Kinton Bell

[8:23] This is Park Hills Park Hills, let's put the park Hills

[8:26] Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute

[8:30] We had an interlocal agreement with Kinton Bell and now we have municipal order O2 2025

[8:40] So in your documents they're rolled through so that in your in your pocket all of them

[8:46] are included one behind the other but yes you need to adopt the interlocal which you've

[8:50] done you'll need to adopt the municipal order also which offers the mayor to to pass the

[8:55] interlocal.

[8:57] So, if you would, sir, we are back to municipal order, municipal order O2 2025.

[9:04] And I guess for them, sorry, I don't mean to interrupt you.

[9:06] Just to clarify, you know, these contracts are good for two year periods.

[9:12] They're different.

[9:12] They're created by statute and they're there.

[9:15] It has to be approved by the Department of Local Government.

[9:19] So, it's a two-part process, which is why we're doing it this way.

[9:22] And it does expire every two years.

[9:31] the city of Fort Wright in Kenton County, Kentucky approving the interlocal agreement between the city of Fort Wright and the city of Kenton Vale relating to EMS services for 2025 through 2027.

[9:45] motion

[9:48] that we approve that motion by Weber do we have a second okay a second

[9:55] by Wessels any additional discussion all right we'll call please

[10:00] Karen yes yes all right and the next we have an interlocal agreement with

[10:12] park Hills again similar to what we just described for Kent and Vale for the

[10:16] the provision of EMS services.

[10:17] Let me interject some things before we get too far down the road.

[10:22] The mayor of Park Kills requested that we review the amount of money we were going to charge

[10:29] for the second year of the agreement.

[10:31] We spent a lot of time looking at it on the front end.

[10:36] We again went back to look at it again, the parameters that we used haven't changed.

[10:42] the cost of going up, you know, when we're running over time, we're doing that stuff.

[10:48] That's really high. So we, the finance committee is suggesting we keep the numbers where

[10:55] we offered them to them on the original proposal. So that's kind of where we're at.

[11:08] Municipal Order 0-3-20-5, a municipal order of the City Council.

[11:14] We're on the air level agreement, oh, you don't want me to read the inter-level, maybe you don't need to read the inter-level.

[11:21] Okay, so to today's point, again, we negotiated with them and to Jill's point every two years this comes up again because the contracts have to be renewed.

[11:32] We've been providing this service to Park Hills for a long time, they are a good neighbor.

[11:36] We want to continue to provide a reasonably priced service for them, but also I just remind folks that live here,

[11:43] You know, we want to do it in a way that's fair to the residents of Fort Wright, right?

[11:46] I mean, we exist primarily to serve the residents of Fort Wright.

[11:49] So when we look at what it costs for us to do this and what it would cost to provide this to other communities,

[11:55] you know, we try to take that into account and make it as fair as possible for everyone involved.

[11:59] So that Fort Wright is not really subsidizing park hills,

[12:02] and the park hills is getting a fair deal for Fort Wright.

[12:05] Again, park hills, great neighbor, great friends, you know, we need them.

[12:09] they need us even do just the standard municipal aid stuff so after the

[12:15] fine again I don't want to put words in the finance committee's mouth I think

[12:17] Jay gave you their position which is they picked up another look at the

[12:20] numbers and said yeah it's just not cost effective for us to come in lower than

[12:25] the rates that we had already suggested to them so with all of that said we have

[12:31] a motion by Jay do we have a second second by Bernie any additional discussion on

[12:37] on the interlocal agreement with Park Hills.

[12:42] All right, roll call please, Carrie.

[12:45] Yes.

[12:45] Mr. Russell?

[12:46] Yes.

[12:48] Mr. Collins?

[12:49] Yes.

[12:50] Mr. Collins?

[12:50] Mr. Wallace?

[12:51] Yes.

[12:52] All right, motion carries and that gets us to municipal order O3 2025 regarding the EMS service

[12:59] contract with Park Hills.

[13:00] If you want to read that, bro.

[13:01] Yes sir.

[13:02] The municipal order is 0-3-2025, a municipal order of the city council of the city of Fort Wright in Kenton County, Kentucky, approving the interlocal agreement between the city of Fort Wright and the city of Park Hills relating to EMS services for 2025 through 2027.

[13:20] Do you have any motion to approve minutes of order O3 2025?

[13:25] I'll make a motion.

[13:26] We have her second.

[13:27] So, I'll say.

[13:28] Wessels, any additional discussion?

[13:33] All right.

[13:33] Roll call, please, Carrie.

[13:35] Yes.

[13:36] Yes.

[13:37] Mr. Wessels?

[13:37] Yes.

[13:38] Mr. Wessels?

[13:38] Yes.

[13:39] Mr. Wessels?

[13:40] Yes.

[13:41] Mr. Wessels?

[13:41] Yes.

[13:42] All right.

[13:43] Motion carries.

[13:44] That is all of our new business for this evening.

[13:47] So, but we'll be out here soon.

[13:49] Committee reports.

[13:50] finance committee, do you have anything else to report?

[13:53] No, we spent, you know, a considerable amount of time looking at the park kills request.

[13:59] And like you mentioned, they're good neighbors.

[14:02] We definitely wanted to consider it that we had to kind of stay where we were at.

[14:06] We talked about registry stuff and we'll go and get an update on that shortly.

[14:11] Things are working good. Jill gave us an update on some of the interest rates we're getting

[14:16] from Republic Bank and that's working out for really good so other than getting our

[14:21] computer squirt away that was pretty much everything we talked about.

[14:26] Any questions for the finance committee?

[14:30] All right, committee improvement, anything?

[14:34] All right then move it right along.

[14:37] Jill you got the thing. The only thing I want to mention is that we sent out

[14:40] the April newsletter. Earlier this week or I guess late last week

[14:44] if you have anything you'd like for May to go in there

[14:47] please let me know and I'll make sure that we include it in our next edition.

[14:51] Other than that, happy to answer any questions you may have about ongoing day-to-day operations.

[14:57] Anybody get any questions for Jill?

[15:00] All right, department reports, administration, carry, what do you got for us at any time?

[15:05] Package reports that are numbers of delete code taxes are lowering every month. This month, only $36.20, so about every month, just 10 months.

[15:18] 36 out of roughly $2,200, right? So, I mean, that's pretty impressive. And some of those are, like, some old tangible taxes from companies that I don't think operate very well.

[15:34] All right, I hope to find an answer.

[15:38] We have some record retention, spring cleaning, the epitome of very well.

[15:44] We completed our in-person ICS 300 training just like last week and continuing with my online

[15:53] line, Excel, training courses, insurance premiums, tax payments, that's about it.

[16:02] Any questions for Ireland?

[16:04] How?

[16:05] This goes to something that Dave started on and I got my feet into it a little bit earlier.

[16:10] David come up with a spreadsheet which was really good.

[16:14] We can use when we're setting rates and that kind of stuff.

[16:18] And there's always a hang-up on one Excel formula.

[16:24] How deep are you into that at this point?

[16:27] So, now you're going to listen more to know that.

[16:28] That'll be a bent task.

[16:30] A bent has been out of the office because he's doing tax prep with his number.

[16:34] Right, but it's the four.

[16:35] Everything is right with days things except the formula.

[16:38] And that's the, and we've got to come up with a good formula.

[16:41] We have not looked at that at all.

[16:42] I know, but I was just asking at what, if she feels comfortable,

[16:51] Yeah I would say that gun is sealed out.

[16:54] Either me initially OR Bill.

[16:58] Okay all right cool.

[16:59] I don't think that's something.

[17:01] Well if she could just we can do the spreadsheet.

[17:05] It's just creating a formula which is what we're doing out that's a all right.

[17:09] Oh nothing else all right.

[17:16] I'd like to recognize Regis Euth in the fire department.

[17:19] You guys will notice on your monthly reports the fire department, men's bathroom project,

[17:25] or to be dropping off, so it won't be on there anymore.

[17:28] We've been working on that for over the past six months, finished it up a week ago, and

[17:34] it's looking beautiful.

[17:35] Regis has got a lot of background in construction, particularly commercial construction, and

[17:41] And he spearheaded it and took it by the horns and it looks great what he did.

[17:45] It really looks nice.

[17:46] And I just want to recognize him for that.

[17:49] He did a great job.

[17:50] It looks amazing.

[17:52] I got the tour.

[17:52] It looks amazing.

[17:54] Really good job.

[17:55] Tours are over for the night.

[17:56] But if you get with me next week, no, if anybody wants to see it after the meet,

[18:01] I'm happy to take you.

[18:03] And you'll get the Dave Hatter Euro case for the man.

[18:10] So just a shout-out to Regis for a job, a really nice job that he did with that.

[18:15] And our plan is to move to the next bathroom.

[18:20] Yes, but Steve, I want to give the Chief a little nod too, because he was in there

[18:27] lots of days doing plumbing work and doing some things with Regis, so you both did an excellent job.

[18:31] Thank you.

[18:32] Yeah.

[18:33] Thanks for asking.

[18:33] Appreciate that.

[18:34] Well, welcome.

[18:37] Not Kelly.

[18:38] I don't know why I'm saying Kelly.

[18:39] Holly Bowman who starts tomorrow.

[18:42] She'll be a new part timer that we have added to the staff except it and tomorrow is her

[18:46] first day.

[18:47] So we'll be welcome and heard tomorrow.

[18:49] Get her on board it and get her going.

[18:51] And today, today, yesterday, I received notice of another gentleman we extended an offer

[18:58] to return it's signed so he'll be coming on and I'll tell you a little bit about him

[19:04] next meeting after we get him in and get him so move it ahead with that but that's all

[19:10] I had unless anybody has any questions and I am happy to take anybody ever that would like

[19:16] to see the bathroom after the meeting or something so I just have a couple things whether

[19:27] So it was getting a little nicer, our calls for service increased about 10% from February to March,

[19:32] which resulted in an increase of traffic accidents.

[19:35] So the roads were getting busier as the weather's getting nicer.

[19:40] Couple of significant things, as you saw on the surplus report, we're getting rid of our old tasers.

[19:47] We've got our new ones, the taser 10, which is a pretty significant upgrade from what we had.

[19:52] We did a department-wide training. We did about six hours of training for every officer.

[20:00] What's that?

[20:01] No, we use the training suit that's made of Velcro.

[20:05] So the training rounds just stick to the Velcro.

[20:08] Once you've been tased, you know, when you first start being a police officer,

[20:11] then you don't have to really do that anymore.

[20:13] You don't forget it.

[20:34] So we got those out on the streets everybody's got those the locker room remodels currently going on

[20:40] right now, so we're expecting that to be finished up sometime in the next two weeks.

[20:46] Speed trailer, we collected some data from the Speed trailer on Cosline for about two weeks.

[20:50] We got a little over 14,000.

[20:52] How accurate that number is, I don't know.

[20:54] It was catching three lanes of traffic at the same time, so there were several times I drove past where it didn't pick me up.

[21:00] So I think the only way to truly get an accurate number is if you just get one of those error houses across all the lanes.

[21:05] But we moved it to the catch the eastbound traffic, that's where it's at now, so we'll

[21:10] do that for two weeks and then we'll compare.

[21:14] And the only other thing I got is Sergeant Von Handorf is down in Richmond for the next

[21:18] three weeks for his Academy of Police supervision, a report on the conclusion of that at the end

[21:24] of the three weeks.

[21:25] And I just want to take a minute, were you finished?

[21:28] Yes, I'm done.

[21:28] I'm done.

[21:29] I didn't want to cut you off.

[21:30] I'm fine.

[21:31] I just wanted to take a minute and recognize Chief Kaua also, he had a little girl who had

[21:37] a bike that was stolen and he worked with a nonprofit called Serve First Foundation and

[21:44] I'll let you talk about this a little bit, but was able to get her a bike replace today.

[21:48] So we got a cute little picture, we wanted to roll out on social media, we just haven't had

[21:52] an opportunity to do that because of the severe weather threat, but can you tell us a little

[21:55] bit about that process?

[21:56] Yes.

[21:57] Yeah, this is randomly a little girl had her bike stolen on for front porch.

[22:02] Her and her dad, I believe, was her father, showed up this morning.

[22:05] And they had heard, they put a post on social media that the bike was a blue bike was stolen.

[22:10] Somebody else had responded to that post and said, I found a blue bike in my backyard.

[22:15] For where I police responded and got it.

[22:17] Well, this was a full size adult bike that we got.

[22:21] So, when the little girl thought that we had the bike, so when I went out there and

[22:25] told her that we didn't have the bike, it kind of crushed her.

[22:29] And I've been working with a friend of mine who works with a nonprofit.

[22:33] We're going to try and get a bike rodeo up sometime in the summer.

[22:36] And he had mentioned something about getting donating some bikes.

[22:39] So I reached out and called him probably within about an hour and a half.

[22:43] He showed up at the police department with a brand new bike.

[22:46] And I called the father back and they lived right down the street and

[22:49] they walked over when we gave it to her.

[22:51] She was very excited.

[22:53] Heal pictures of her with her riding it on parking lot, so it was a great job.

[23:00] Yeah, we can do that.

[23:01] Of course.

[23:04] Anything else, Chief?

[23:06] No, sir.

[23:07] Anybody got any questions for Chief Colwell?

[23:09] Well, one thing I want to suggest, it was something I sent you a note on.

[23:16] And it struck me when I saw it, and I read it, was that we were talking about shields.

[23:21] you know it's okay if the office got a shield and he's gonna make a shot he

[23:28] can't shoot through the sea shield or he can't reach around if he lays

[23:32] on his gun he could see where it's at and he could pull the trigger and be

[23:37] safe behind the shield it might be something you want to consider. The shields

[23:40] that we have have a viewport will approve glass in the way that were taught as

[23:45] you hold the weapon directly in front of the viewport and you look through your

[23:48] Okay. Cool.

[23:52] Anything else for Chief Kahlo?

[23:56] All right, Jeff. What do you got from

[23:58] public service? Crack sealing the project that we began last fall starting up

[24:05] again this month on the phone with regular the other day. They are bringing

[24:10] their guys back from the winter. I believe this week and we're going to

[24:16] maintain an equipment they're planning on being in here around the 14th so you'd

[24:19] started on that again. The I got a pre-construction meeting tomorrow with

[24:26] the water district and our engineers for the water main replacements. They're

[24:30] going to occur on picket and general out of our payment project. They're

[24:35] anticipating the main replacements to finish by the end of June prior to our

[24:40] are resurfacing beginning. Also, Edna, the storm replacement that they're going to be

[24:47] going through there, they've been acquiring easements. They're anticipating the bid

[24:53] to go out for that project this spring. So we'll have more information after that on project

[24:59] schedule, probably likely end of the year. They anticipate that they'll be able to get everything

[25:09] Marty and I will be out in the next couple of weeks re-evaluating our five-year plan.

[25:15] As you guys know, we do that every two and a half years, so it will take some time to

[25:20] get that done, and then he's got to review all the information and get a plan out.

[25:25] So we'll have that coming up.

[25:26] Before you continue, Jeff.

[25:27] I want to take a second and just remind folks, so what you have is talking about here.

[25:31] We had a five-year Boeing Street program that books at all the streets in the city.

[25:34] This was developed many, many years ago, long before I was mayor, back in my council days to try to take the politics out of fixing people's streets.

[25:43] So there's a fairly elaborate formula they have that Jeff and our city engineer, in this case, Mario used to be Mark.

[25:53] go around evaluate the streets, it's a five-year plan, so we have a plan, this

[25:57] every five years we're going to do these streets, but then halfway through the

[26:00] plan we go back and look at it again because obviously conditions change, traffic

[26:03] patterns change, sometimes the condition of the street doesn't hold up the way

[26:07] that we expect it to, so again there's and this is all published on the website for

[26:11] people that are interested because you know every once in a while someone will ask

[26:13] like, well what are you going to fix my street, we just hit someone reach out the

[26:16] other day, talk about a street problem. So just remind folks you know if you're

[26:20] interested in where is your street in the mix because we're kind of trying to

[26:24] loosely, you know, have 20-year-life span streets so that, you know, every street

[26:29] is essentially getting fixed, at least once in a 20-year span. That doesn't

[26:33] always work out that way. Sometimes emergencies occur. Plants have to change again.

[26:38] Different traffic patterns and that sort of thing. But there is a plan. This

[26:41] isn't all just done at random. We're not running around like fixing the mayor's

[26:44] street because the mayor lives there. In fact, although my street is coming up, it

[26:48] hasn't been touched since like 1998. So I just want to be clear I think this is an important

[26:54] aspect of trying to take the politics out of getting streets fixed and making sure that

[26:59] we're investing in the infrastructure in a reasonable way so that everyone ultimately

[27:03] gets their street brought up to some kind of, you know, meaningful and reasonable modern

[27:07] street standard. Again, all that's published out on the website, so what Jeff's saying is

[27:12] they're going to go through this two and a half year review and see if we're going to continue

[27:16] with the plan as it stood five years ago, or do we need to make adjustments to it?

[27:21] Jeff, I don't have anything else to add. Some people have something.

[27:23] The only thing that I would add to that is the formulas and standards that they use are national.

[27:29] It's used across the country, it's not.

[27:33] It's really good that we have it.

[27:34] I had this pleasure of watching Crescent Springs Council on the other night,

[27:38] and how argumentative they were over trying to figure out some streets that they were doing.

[27:43] and I think if they wouldn't come up with plans somewhere

[27:47] or this, we wouldn't be arguing with each other.

[27:51] You know, it's good that we have it.

[27:54] Yeah, I agree with you, Paul Hartley-Barty.

[27:56] I think it's worked out really well over the years.

[27:59] And, you know, honestly, I rarely, in my time,

[28:02] both on Council and his mayor, I really haven't gotten

[28:04] that many complaints about the street program

[28:08] when people understand there's this plan,

[28:10] and they can go look at it for themselves

[28:11] and it's see how it works, you know, and see that we're not just making this stuff up or somebody because their friends with somebody here is getting their street mates.

[28:19] There's an actual plan and within reason we adhere to the plan and we work with our experts to know about these things to design a plan and, you know, follow the plan.

[28:28] So I think it's paid off in the long run over the years.

[28:32] Plus to that end, we're starting to seal streets more than we did in the past.

[28:38] And that's going to make them last longer, so be better for a longer period of time.

[28:43] Yeah, that's an excellent point, Jan.

[28:45] I mean, again, the ultimate goal here is to make these things last as long as possible.

[28:51] And at the same time, try to make sure that they look good and improve the overall infrastructure

[28:56] and the value of your home as a fort-right rather than.

[29:01] Okay, I kind of cut you off, Jan.

[29:04] I just have one more thing the security camera replacement that's going to resume this Friday they pulled some wire last week the recorder that they had ordered the certain delivery company misplaced it so he had to have another one shipped that is here now while not here but he has it now so that will resume on Friday and there anticipating having that project wrapped up by the end of next week.

[29:33] Anyone got any questions for Jack?

[29:35] Just a roof up here.

[29:37] We're moving down trying to find somebody to...

[29:40] I have to get out a bid packet for that.

[29:43] We're working on putting that together.

[29:45] That's going to take a little bit of time because the bid packet,

[29:47] we've got to get out first into waste collection stuff.

[29:51] Cool.

[29:52] And also, I want to tell out there, I emailed you guys about this,

[29:55] but I just want to mention that, you know,

[29:58] one of the things that's...

[30:00] Local government records request. Do you want to just give them a quick update on that? Sure. We have a rather lengthy, open records request that can then requesting a series of emails from about 13 or 14 staff members in regard to a personal dispute that they're having with an individual in a private police matter. So we've been responding to that, but it takes a lot of time to get through all of this records. We're having proof of pool archive documents.

[30:28] and we'll be responding as quickly as we can.

[30:31] We have typically five days to respond to this request,

[30:34] but in this case, the request is to eliminate us,

[30:37] so we have indicated that it would take us up to 45 days

[30:40] to respond, but we'll get them as soon as we can to them.

[30:43] So that individual is indicated, that's fine,

[30:45] but we're continuing to work on that process.

[30:48] These kinds of things come into case

[30:50] when they consume a lot of time,

[30:52] because as a reminder, for folks watching from home,

[30:54] we only have a three person administration department,

[30:57] including Jill.

[30:57] So, here when you get these kind of records requests, it can take a significant amount of time on top of all that other stuff that has to be dealt with in a given day.

[31:07] So, okay.

[31:10] If there's nothing else for Jeff, that gets us through department reports, special announcements.

[31:16] One drive has crashed on me again when we got here.

[31:20] So, upcoming events, mark your calendars.

[31:22] We got the Easter Bunny neighborhood visit on April 12th.

[31:25] That's a Saturday.

[31:26] It starts at two here at the city building.

[31:29] And this is a reminder for folks that are interested in that.

[31:31] The Easter Bunny will be on the fire truck.

[31:33] They'll drive around through the neighborhood.

[31:34] So, if your kids are interested in that kind of thing,

[31:37] write that down in your calendar.

[31:38] We'll promote it on the social media and such.

[31:41] In the meanwhile, but that's April 12th.

[31:43] Also on Saturday, April 12th is our annual cleanup for Right Day.

[31:47] How many years have we been doing this, Margie?

[31:49] I think this is our 13th event.

[31:52] So, first off, Kudos to Margie.

[31:54] She's been spearheading this thing for a long, long time.

[31:57] This is a great opportunity, not only to get service hours,

[32:00] but to come out, meet your neighbors, and help beautify our community.

[32:03] It's a great event. Usually has a great turnout every year.

[32:06] I was like to joke that, you know, I can't move for like three days after this.

[32:10] So, you know, pick up the garbage pretty much right to me because I'm old now.

[32:13] but again that will start here 9 a.m. goes till noon we provide lunch for folks and

[32:20] then just as a reminder it's great chance to meet your neighbors bring up the

[32:24] community get some service hours if you have kids that need service hours for

[32:27] school so hopefully we'll see you here on Saturday April 12th we've got building

[32:34] closed April 18th for spring holiday slash Easter we got Friday and Saturday May

[32:40] May 16th and 17th, the annual Fort Wright Garden Club plant swap, which will occur here.

[32:47] And the 16th and 17th of May, the same two days, Friday and Saturday, the community spring

[32:54] yard sale.

[32:54] So if you're interested in that, you can hit the website or call up here, email us, we'll

[32:58] get you the form for that.

[32:59] It's free to participate, you just have to register yourself, and we'll help you promote

[33:03] it by registering.

[33:04] So it's in your interest to register, because we'll put out a list prior to that event, for

[33:09] folks are interested in the yard sales so they know where to go.

[33:13] And then May 26th, which is Monday, that's Memorial Day, we'll have our standard Memorial

[33:17] Day ceremony here, starts at 10 at the city building.

[33:20] And this year's speaker, I think, is sort of extra special.

[33:23] It's going to be Fran Lee, who is a longtime Fort Wright resident, and unfortunately, the

[33:28] gold star mother of Staff Sergeant Daniel Lee, a former green beret who was unfortunately

[33:33] killed in action.

[33:35] The highway out here is named for him.

[33:36] He's memorialized everything in our garden.

[33:38] Guy was a fort-right native absolute hero.

[33:41] Again, his parents have been here for a long, long time.

[33:45] I think it's going to be really awesome

[33:46] that the Fran is going to come and speak at the ceremony.

[33:50] May 26th, the 10th here at the city meeting.

[33:52] So the pool was there, the next, the next, the next.

[33:54] Sorry, so one number's for now.

[33:58] OK, we don't have anything for executive session tonight.

[34:01] So really, that pretty much wraps us up for the evening.

[34:05] How's that, Jason?

[34:14] Okay, so with that note, I'll make the motion.

[34:23] Just real quick, I just want to thank our volunteers, we've got a bunch of volunteers that are picking up trash on our neighborhood streets regularly and we've already collected 49 bags of trash.

[34:36] just on those certain streets that we collect on regularly.

[34:41] Our biggest collector is Henry Clay, we've already gotten 18 bags off of Henry Clay.

[34:48] And 17 bags off of Park Road from the other side town.

[34:53] Yeah, and if you're interested in becoming one of the regular volunteers as opposed to just

[34:57] showing up on the spring or clean up day, reach out to me, reach out to Margie, we'll get

[35:02] you added to the list.

[35:03] And then you know, it's it's a very informal program people just while they're out walking take a garbage bag or something and you know, clean up a particular area

[35:10] So if that's something you'd be interested in reach out. We love to add you to the list

[35:15] Anything else more in park or the two? You said those are the two big ones, right? I mean

[35:21] 18 bags off the Henry Clive

[35:23] Both streets with people coming through the

[35:26] Just drive through streets

[35:27] Our neighbors don't crash, not our folks.

[35:31] Yeah, I think the bulk of the trash you see in those neighborhoods is not coming for

[35:37] bright, rather than just people driving through and just decides to not be very friendly

[35:41] and neighborly.

[35:42] Right.

[35:42] Unfortunately.

[35:44] Jason, kind of name?

[35:46] Jay?

[35:46] Scott?

[35:47] No.

[35:48] Bernie.

[35:48] Publicly, thank Chief Shoey and his team for your professionalism and compassion on hailing

[35:54] a good family matter. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. I appreciate that. I'll

[35:59] pay a set of all.

[36:02] Okay, if there's nothing else, I think that concludes. So with that, do

[36:07] we have a motion to adjourn it? Jason?

[36:17] Jason

[36:17] Colin second a second wall

[36:21] Roll call please carry

[36:27] Yes, yes

[36:29] All

[36:32] right. Thank you all we are adjourned get home beast

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