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We're good.

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Good evening. Welcome to tonight's
council meeting. I'd like to call the

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meeting to order. First thing I'm going
to ask for is agenda changes.

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Mr. Mayor, no addition or deletion, but
we are going to ask that the executive

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session um be moved till to after the
report section on the agenda tonight.

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Okay, council, you're all good with
that,

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right? All right. Now, I'm gonna ask for
well, we're going to open up for public

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forum. If there's anybody here wishing
to address the council, please come

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forward, give your name, address, and
let us know why you're

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here. You don't have to turn that
on. Uh, good evening. My name is Amy

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Beck. Um, I live at 920 West 4th Street.
Um, I would like to say a few words on

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behalf of the local Holdeman Menanite
community. The Holdemans are an integral

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part of Holstead and Harvey County. They
live here. They shop here. They own

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businesses here. They are our neighbors
and our friends. They are some of the

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first to help in times of need. Whether
it's to feed a struggling family, clear

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trees after a storm, or anything else
that needs to be done. They don't do it

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for the recognition, but because they
care, and it's a way for them to show

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appreciation for being able to live
their mostly quiet lifestyle. Their

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beliefs and their culture do not allow
them to vote at the ballot box or to be

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involved in politics. This does not mean
that they do not follow local issues.

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They are well aware of the potential
impacts that the propo proposed best may

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have on the community and the
environment. To them, this is more than

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politics. This is the welfare of their
chosen hometown in a very real and

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personal way. This isn't about
separation of church and state. This is

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about common
sense. Grace Menanite Church and

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Countryside Christian School are less
than a mile west of the proposed site.

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Many of the older folks in their
community do not use social media, which

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has become the primary way to spread
information in times of

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crisis. When there is an emergency that
ne necessitates evacuation, it will be

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difficult to locate all of the members
of this community and ensure that they

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are safe in a timely
fashion. I'm asking you to keep this

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community in mind throughout the
process. In the event that best is

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approved, excuse me, please think about
what Holstead would look like without

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this community because the ballot box is
not the only way to make their voices be

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heard. Um, I was asked to read that by
members of the

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community.
Um, now speaking as myself and Mr.

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Jance, I want to address this one to
you. This is just a general question

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procedure type thing.
Um, generally speaking, when there is an

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issue that
the council votes upon and they approve

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or reject, deny, does the mayor have the
ability to veto that vote?

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There are instances where the mayor
mayor does have veto powers and it would

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be to depend on the circumstances. Okay.
Um, I was asked to ask that because many

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people in the community right now are
concerned

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that should a decision be made, it's we
have been under the understanding that

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the mayor can veto the decision that the
council makes.

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Not in certain circumstances. There, as
I said, there are limited instances

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there there is the potential for a veto
by a mayor in a municipal setting in

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Kansas.
Okay, thank you. That veto could also be

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overridden by a unanimous vote from the
council.

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Thank you. All right. Anybody else for
public forum?

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Name and address, please.

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Renee Fensky at 219 West Second Street.
Good evening, Mayor Travis and council

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members. I am Renee, a very concerned
new to H Hallstead resident. I am so

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thankful to have the opportunity to
speak on behalf of myself and other

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community
members. I am here to speak about our

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energy future for H
Hallstead. As our entire country

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continues to transition towards cleaner
energy sources, solar, wind, and other

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renewables, we face critical challenges
for the safety of this community

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specifically involving energy storage.
Examples, the equis bed, the pollution

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that could be caused there. A fire's
aftermath. There's nothing they can do

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with the fire once it starts. They just
have to monitor

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it. Energy storage can have a benefit.
We can allow the capture of excess power

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during periods of low demand and deploy
it when it's most needed. This can

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reduce strain on the grid, preventing
blackouts and ultimately saving

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money. Mayor Travis, please hear me when
I say I am very opposed to an outside

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company profiting from our small town.
You have made it very clear you are

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supportive of the involvement of this
project and the funds that H Hallstead

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would receive, not the jobs that it
could potentially be created to

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integrate storage for H

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Hallstead. You quoted Schneider
Electric. However, their $700 million

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project created jobs for that community.
And that's from the vice president Jay

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Hull of Schneider Electric. Yeah,
they're building best system. Please

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don't interrupt my five minutes. Okay,
I'll speak when you're done. I have

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spoken to previous mayors of small
Kansas towns similar to Holstead and the

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current mayor of Claflin,
Kansas. All have the same priority. What

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are the citizens concerned with? Stop
fighting and stop name calling.

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Mayor Travis and council members, I do
not envy your job. However, I have a

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suggestion to maybe hear your citizens.
Have an adult, calm

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conversation. Everyone is concerned with
H Hallstead. Everybody wants what's best

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for H
Hallstead. At the end of your day,

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that's what the majority of us all want.
I'm not against Mayor Travis or any

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council members. I'm a citizen. I'm a
resident. I care about Hallstead,

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too. I will end with a wonderful quote.
Let us consider how we

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may spur one another on toward love and
good deeds. Not giving up meeting

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together as some are in the habit of
doing, but encourage one another and all

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the more as you see in the day
approaching.

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Thank you.
Thanks. First of all, I want to make it

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very clear. I have never once said I'm
100% in favor of this project. Thank

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you. What I am in favor of is letting
this project run through the process

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that we have set up in this city to
properly vet the

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project by the planning and zoning
saying and it's not true yet because

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they haven't brought forward any
regulations but they've said they will

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hold this project to the special use
permit application process and I believe

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that is the smartest thing they could
do. That process will kick off two

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engineering studies, a sightspecific
hazard risk analysis and an

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environmental impact study. And all I
have ever asked for is for this group

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that's opposed to this is to let those
two studies happen and then we can sit

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down and have an intellectual
conversation about the results of

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that. I had a conversation this
afternoon with a member of your group,

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Brie Burke. We had a very good
conversation because she was willing to

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listen to my side and I was willing to
listen to her side. I don't want to

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fight with my constituents in town. I am
simply fighting to keep this project on

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the track that it's supposed to be on
and get through our process. That's

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where I'm at. So, if anybody else would
like to address the council now, I'll

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let you speak. Thank you.

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Roger Kading, uh, 20 Cedar
Drive. Uh, mayor and council. Uh, I

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don't interview you guys. I've been
chairman of boards. I've been on a

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number of boards. Uh, when things like
this get heated and, uh, excited. Uh, I

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know it's long nights and uh, a lot of
stress. So, uh, you have my

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sympathy. Uh, I want to start with a a
basic question. I'm curious who

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approached who. Concurrent approached
the city or the city approached them?

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Concurrent actually approached Harvey
County EDC, which is Harvey County

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Economic Development. Ethan and I are
both part of that committee. And then

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the director for Harvey County EDC
reached out to us about the opportunity.

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That's how it got started. Okay.
So then the next question is, uh, what

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do we really know about Concurrent? But
what what I have found is that they're a

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company that's been in existence since
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2022. So they're only a few years old.
They have, from what I can see, seven

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employees, which the council has uh
you're as large as that company.

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Uh, and when you look at their website,
they have a number of sites that they've

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been working on, but the only one they
talk about is H Hallstead. So, I just

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have to assume that we are further along
than all of the other uh projects that

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they're claiming. That's not quite true.
They do have two pro projects currently

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that are permitted that they'll be
doing, but due to NDAs, I can't tell you

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where those projects are. Okay. But
they've still not and they they claim

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that the last meeting that they they
were at that they were discussing that

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they've not actually built any of these
even though that's what they claim as

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the company. The way I understand
concurrent their top two board members

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came from other organizations that did
the same thing. So it's it's much like

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if you work for this company for 20
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That's kind of what has happened with
Concurrent. I haven't completely looked

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into their background yet because quite
frankly, we're just not there yet in the

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process to worry about it. All right.
I'm worried about it. I understand. And

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it will be looked at before this will
ever get approved. So, it's always

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important to look at, especially when
you've got a company that small, who

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owns them. And so, in researching that,
uh, Caltech LLC is who owns them. And

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they went bankrupt in May of 2023. What
was the name of that company again?

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Caltech. Caltech.
These are all red flags in my C l

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Caltech. Q U A L. Okay.

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No, that's great, Roger. I'll look into
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Um, so again, another red flag. We know
that they haven't built any red flag.

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Uh, so then who will build this if they
have a staff of seven? And when you look

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at their staff, none of them are
builders. At best, you could say they've

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got a program manager. So, who is
physically going to be building this?

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And how how experienced are they?
Because this isn't this isn't something

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where you just go and hire some general
uh electricians to do. This is is

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industrial scale batteries that have a
notoriously bad uh reputation and have

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to be held extremely serious. So
it red flag,

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right? They've also said that once
they're done, they're going to sell it

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and somebody else is going to maintain
it. Do we know who that is?

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This is a to me a very bizarre business
uh plan. If you're

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a dot, you might go out and build your
company. You build it up and then sell

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it. That's how you make the the extra
big dough. But when you're a company

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like this, it's like opening your store,
having a ribbon cutting ceremony, and

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then putting a for sale sign in the in
the window. It it seems very bizarre.

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And to me, the reason that a company
would be structured like this is to

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cover their assets. They're doing this
in a way that if there's a problem,

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because we've seen there's a number of
these best uh situations

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where the fire happens during the build
process. It just seems to me like this

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is a way to to cover their
tails. You have this little company,

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fire happens, it dissolves, it's gone.
they're not associated with whoever's

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maintaining and and building it. Just to
me, another red flag. It really seems

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bizarre. They've also said that there's
not going to be anybody here that

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actually runs it or maintains it. It's
going to be monitored. To me, that is a

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huge red flag. If the monitor says, "All
right, something's going wrong." Who Who

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are they calling? Who who's going to fix
this? Is it coming out of Texas? Is it a

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day later somebody comes and addresses
it? I just think it again when you have

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these type of facilities, having
something that's just simply monitored

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is
just these red flags aren't like little

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little desk flags. These aren't even
like flags on your house. These are

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those giant flags that they put out in
the football fields. Huge red flags.

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So I'm curious who is liable if that
example that I gave if if they suddenly

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poof dissolve gone something happens
they don't even file bankruptcy they

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they just like close shop and leave
because we've we've seen what's happened

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before when people leave or go bankrupt
tends to be the city who's who's

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who's ultimately responsible.
Is is that I mean am I speaking out of

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line with that? Isn't that ultimately
who currently to address that specific

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question and again because regulations
and all that have not been completed

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completed yet we are requiring a
decommissioning bond on the front end of

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this project. So the capital to
dismantle that plant back down to dirt

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will be there before it's ever approved
to dismantle it. dismantle it, haul it

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off, all of the other issues that
happened that caused the dismantling.

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Who who's liable for that? Especially if
if they disappear, you've got some money

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that's held in bond, but what about all
the rest of the problems when the

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lawsuits come? First of all, I don't and
and let me back up because I want to

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address that first question. They are a
developer. At the end of the day,

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developers generally don't know every
detail to their projects. They know how

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to put projects together. So, they're
going to hire an engineering firm to do

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that to put to engineer the project.
Then, they're going to hire a contractor

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to put this thing in. And then they're
going to choose which equipment they

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use, which manufacturer, which vendor's
equipment they're going to use. To me,

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those three things alone are probably
more important than the actual

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developer. And I've worked with
companies in my day job all across the

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US doing stuff like this. For instance,
most of you are probably familiar with

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ICM down in Colitch. They've designed
and built ethanol plants all over the

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country, but they don't own them. They
build them and they sell them. Uh that's

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pretty typical for industrial
development. Uh, from what I understand,

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EverGy is very interested in these
projects. Anybody that's managing

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generation on these grids that are in
different locations and for us at

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Southwest Powerpool, but the generators
on that pool are very interested in this

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because it's a huge benefit to the grid
and more than likely they'll be the ones

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that purchase it because they don't have
the resources to do the initial

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development. That's why they're relying
on the private sector to do the original

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development. Um, and the growth
continues in the industry. Even even

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with the things that have happened with
Moss Landing, the growth continues to

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accelerate. Um, at the end of the day,
do I think that Concurrent is going to

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be for sure the final developer on a
potential project for us? Maybe they

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won't be. Uh, but we need those
regulations in place. one. So if

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somebody decides to put a home best in,
we've got regulations to cover that. But

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even tier two for commercial properties,
which I don't know that we'd have a

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commercial property like a hospital or
something that would be utilizing it.

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But then tier three covers your grid
scale stuff. We need to have those

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regulations in place so if a developer
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that we're looking at out there is the
perfect storm for this application. So,

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even if we decide we don't want to do a
deal with Concurrent, it could be

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attractive to other developers. Maybe a
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I don't know. I don't know what that
picture looks like when we get to that

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point. Um, so there's still a lot of
unanswered questions and I think you've

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brought up some great points and I'll
I'll allow you to continue, but I just

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wanted to bring that up. Yeah.
Well, I guess what bothers me most is

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that this is just not only all the red
flags, but it's it's a whole bunch of

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firsts. We're first in Kansas. We're
first with Concurrent.

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We're It's
like, should the school change the

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mascot from the Dragons to the guinea
pigs? I mean, it just feels like we are

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the lab rats for this type of facility
here in Kansas. I'm not I'm not opposed

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to these type of things, but it just
seems like number one, they're way

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better out in western Kansas. I grew up
out there. There's you don't you can

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drive for 30 miles and not hit a a
house. There there's plenty of space out

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there to do something like this. to do
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town, just to duck the Harvey County ban
seems just crazy to me. It's not to duck

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the Harvey County ban. It's because we
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capability. That's what makes
substations in Kansas, but it also it

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also has to do with the grid and
Southwest Powerpool is looking at those

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strategic locations where to put these
to help the grid. And right now there's

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37 active connection requests with
Southwest Powerpool Hallsteads included.

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30 of those are standalone best units,
which is what Hallsteads would be as a

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standalone. Seven of them are tied to
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to a wind farm. I found it interesting
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Um, this is something we're going to
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We're not the first unit in Kansas. The
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as part of the Kansas power pool and
it's right in the city of Minneapolis

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connected to their municipal power
plant. The second units are two units

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that are installed down at the Sedwick
County Zoo. They're quite a bit smaller,

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but they put all that solar energy on
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they're class twos. Uh I think they're
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they're uh half a megawatt a piece.
They're they're over the kilowatt range.

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Uh, but I can verify that with the with
the risks involved. This is the type of

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thing that I don't think being an early
adopter wins us a race. We don't get a

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prize for for being out there and and
and getting it. And if the prize is is

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the cash they're flashing in front of
our our face, uh, and that's the only

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green flag is is the money, uh, I think
we really need to analyze the risks. We

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we are analyzing the risks and
regardless of what people think, what

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people say. Again, I I go back to
there's two studies that have to be done

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by that special use permit process.
Those are going to answer the majority

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of the questions that are floating
around out there. And I just want to get

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through those studies and see where
we're at. Okay. I just plead with you

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guys, kill this as soon as you can. I I
I this is the type of thing that it is

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ripping the community apart. It's more
risk than I think we need or want and

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the
payout. I just we we've had these

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ventures before and it it it's like
somehow H Hallstead seems to be on the

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losing end of this when you look at the
other towns around us and I just I don't

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want us to be burned literally off the
map. Thank you. Well, the other side to

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that, Roger, is uh what I see if we
don't give this developer the

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opportunity to at least go through our
process and and have us fully vet it and

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then make a decision, well, you're going
to discourage any other developer that

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could potentially be looking at coming
to Hallstead to do something. Uh, and

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that bothers
me. Anybody else want to address the

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council?

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Apologize. I didn't have these printed
out. My daughter's sick. So, if you

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could just pass them around. The first
name and address. My name is Cole

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Silhan, 123 Red Court. Uh the first I'm
passing around is um a post from Mayor

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Dennis Tra Dennis Travis on his personal
page. Um it was a post in regards to our

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after our planning and zoning
meeting. The next I'm passing around

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again I apologize my daughter's sick.
um are

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three links that I had previously posted
on Mayor Dennis Travis government

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official Facebook page. Uh please note
www.controlglobal.com.

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The third is
evidence of what Mayor Travis, Dennis

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Travis wanted proof
of. Show me the proof. There it is.

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Thank you for letting me speak
tonight. I am standing here tonight

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because I love this town. I love the
people, the values, the sense of

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community. We've always had neighbors
helping neighbors. Whether you're

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lifelong residents, newcomers, or part
of our strong and respected Menite

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families who helped build H Hallstead
from the very

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beginning. But lately, a sense of
community has been fraying. A big reason

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is how the mayor has handled the battery
battery energy storage system project

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and how he's treated the very people he
swore to

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serve. A couple months back, Mayor
Dennis Travis held a public meeting with

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Concurrent about bringing a bus here.
Many of us good, hard-working people

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have voiced concerns and simply placed
peaceful yard signs attending meetings

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and asked questions. Instead of
listening, the mayor said he was

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embarrassed and ashamed of
us. He promised to stay neutral but

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never did. on his government official
Facebook page. He posted only

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promotional material, deleted critical
comments, and blocked

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citizens. He even labeled our elders,
veterans, and Menanite neighbors as an

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unhinged mob simply for speaking up and
showing

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opposition. When asked for an apology
multiple times, he refused. He

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interrupted
citizens got visibly

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angry. Mayor also deleted his official
Facebook page, shifting to a private one

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where he where there can be no critical
voice or opposition

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shown. Meanwhile, he's been campaigning
for concurrent and handing out power up

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Hallstead signs. He has three in his
yard supplied by

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Concurrent. He urges neighbors to
display them. He even attends public

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places in H Hallstead where he speaks
about the best project and urges people

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to side with him. He turns away from
anyone who says

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otherwise. Even the PowerUp Hallstead
website carries a privacy notice warning

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that your data may be collected and used
in future litigation against you.

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Many of us have received spoofed calls
from K

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AO Media working with Concurrent to
gather information so Concurrent can try

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to sway our
opinions. I'm a veteran with PTSD and

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anxiety. Because of this, I now lock my
doors, watch my children more closely

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than ever before, and wonder if I can
safely speak at public meetings without

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being silenced or slandered by my own
mayor.

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This is not leadership. This is not
democracy. The Government Code of Ethics

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and the Kansas Open Meetings Act exists
to protect towns like ours from exactly

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this abuse of power. Citizens should
never live in fear of their elected

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officials or be called names for
exercising their constitutional rights.

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Tonight, I respectfully and urgently ask
this council to one, investigate the

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mayor's repeated violations of ethics
and open meeting laws. Two, censor Mayor

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Dennis Travis for his pattern of
censorship, intimidation, and

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bias. And three, consider removal of the
mayor from office if found to have

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willfully abused his position and
violated his duty to represent all

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citizens impartially.
Holstead deserves better than this

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division of fear. Menanites, farmers,
veterans, moms, dads, business owners,

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and children. We are this town. It said
we are

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Holstead. We ask only for honesty,
fairness, and respect. Please restore

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our trust in local government. Please
show that in Holstead, every voice

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matters. By taking action, you are
simply restoring the trust back in this

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community in which has been long for by
many, many citizens. Thank you for

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listening and thank you for standing up
for Holston.

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Thank you. Thank you for being here um
in light of your daughter's illness.

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Sorry that she's sick. Thank you.
Did everybody get a chance to look at

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the
Anybody else like to weigh in?

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Anybody else want to speak to the
council?

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Name and address, please. Um, my name is
Brianna Burke. I really would rather not

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state my address, but I'm happy to give
it to you afterwards. Um, I'm actually a

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new resident. I'm sorry for being late.
I have children and I work in Witchah.

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Um, I may have mentioned your name
earlier that you and I had a

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conversation. Absolutely. Yes, we did.
Um, I actually just moved here to H

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Hallstead in I believe it was September.
And um, I'm actually a pro green

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resident. I am pro- renewable energy,
which I think is a little bit of an

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interesting standpoint because if I had
seen the best signs whenever I came to

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look at houses, I never would have moved
here. I researched many different towns.

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I looked at Clear Water. We went to
Winfield. We went to um Cheni. We went

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I'm from Andel, so we looked out in
Andale. And public speaking is not my

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forte, so I apologize if I'm a little
bit shaky, but I really pride myself on

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doing research and looking into every
aspect because I care very deeply about

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community. Um I teach in which I work
for WSU Tech. Um and I just really care

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about uplifting the community that I'm
in because we're all here together,

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right? Um, so actually if I had seen the
the best signs whenever I was looking

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for somewhere to live, I probably never
would have chosen here because although

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I am pro green energy, I'm very aware of
the fact that they come with a litany of

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different risks. And regardless of your
standpoint politically, whether you're

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Republican or Democrat, there has been a
lot of pro-industrial movements within

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legislation lately that show that there
may be signs of a lot of leniency be

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given to a lot of things that could
potentially affect our environment. And

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um if this was proposed 4 miles outside
of town, if there was no equis bed, if

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they were paying us a little bit more,
considering with the H Hallstead mill

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levy they're avoiding somewhere probably
estimated around 6 million plus in

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property taxes a year. Forgive me if
that's not a completely accurate

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estimate, but through looking and
verifying through multiple sources of AI

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providing all the mill levy and tax
information as well as the facility size

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and the 200 million um build uh budget,
that was what was estimated to be paid

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in taxes. So, if we could get a little
bit of wiggle room there, I could

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probably be very easily convinced
considering I am um pro green energy,

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but we are stewards of this land. And I
heard someone say that I forgive me if

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it's not um 100% as I saw it, but uh
someone said that the risk that had been

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quoted was that we risk contaminating 2
miles of equis bed with the average uh

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volume density of the equis bed around
the Hallstead in a two mile square area

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radius. That actually equals to be about
9 billion gallons of water roughly. Um

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give or take. Once again, if my
estimates aren't correct, I'm a culinary

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teacher, not a mathematician. Math is
actually specifically my weak point. Um,

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but I'm trying very hard to understand
all sides, especially being

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pro-renewable energy. I kind of honestly
was like, "Oh, maybe this isn't a bad

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thing." And then I started looking more
and more into it. And I started to see a

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lot in more and more discourse. And it's
just been really sad to move to a

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community that I very quickly we went
trick-or-treating on Halloween and we

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heard this noise done like Mission
Impossible and all of a sudden we turn

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around and there are like 12 12 year
olds dressed as minions carrying a boom

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box. Like I love this town. I love
everybody that I've met. They're so

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sweet. And it's so sad to see such a
discourse because the quoted uh risk by

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Dennis Travis, I did send you that
screenshot earlier where we had

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discussed that previously. The risk
quoted by you was 0.58%. And when I had

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prompted you if that was an annual or a
term risk, you didn't answer. And I'm

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assuming that if it was a term risk, you
probably would have volunteered that

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information rather willingly because
that some of that data is changing so

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fast. I I understand, but this was just
a mere amount of weeks ago. And if you

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guys understand the data is changing so
fast, I'm rather confused why you

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wouldn't be willing to put a moratorum
like some people have requested to allow

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the technology to catch up if that's the
case. Um, but with that 5 uh.58 quoted

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percent that actually compounds over 10
years to be about a 1 in 18 chance and

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I'll wrap up here. I actually probably
have a lot more to say, but once again,

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public speaking is not my forte. I got a
little bit shaky, but one in 18 chance

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if this was a game show and they said,
"Okay, at the end of 10 years, your town

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gets $5 million, but there's a one in 18
chance that a disaster will happen." I

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would never take that chance. Not for my
neighbor who I see with her daycare. Not

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my children playing in the backyard, not
the sweet little clerk at the grocery

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store, the two little girls that bag up
my groceries every time I go that are

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sweet as honey. And it's just it's so
sad to see the community to come to this

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over something
like this I guess and there's lots of

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risk and there's a lot more that I would
like to say but I would never bet th my

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those odds and granted it could be a
very small risk maybe nothing could

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happen maybe it's just something little
and it fizzles out but I don't think any

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source or home of somewhere where a
disaster has happened ever thought that

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they would happen it would happen to
them and I don't would never even risk I

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would never never risk that on my my
neighbors and my fellow Hallstead

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residents lives because truly everybody
I've interacted with so far has been

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00:35:53,119 --> 00:35:59,359
wonderful. But I appreciate you for your
time and once again sorry public

408
00:35:56,720 --> 00:36:04,079
speaking is not my forte. Thanks Bri.
Thank you. Anybody else wishing to

409
00:36:01,599 --> 00:36:04,079
address the

410
00:36:06,599 --> 00:36:14,720
council? All right, we will close the
public forum and I'd like to ask for

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00:36:12,000 --> 00:36:18,480
approval of the consent agenda.
Mr. Mayor, after reviewing and going

412
00:36:16,720 --> 00:36:22,960
through the consent agenda as submitted,
I would make a motion to approve it.

413
00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:27,960
Second. We have a motion and a second to
approve the consent agenda. All in favor

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00:36:24,720 --> 00:36:32,800
say I. I. I. Oppose. Same
sign. The consent agenda stands as

415
00:36:31,040 --> 00:36:36,400
approved. We have no unfinished
business. So, we'll move on to new

416
00:36:34,640 --> 00:36:40,640
business. And the first item is code
enforcement options. You have something

417
00:36:38,960 --> 00:36:44,880
for us there, Ethan? And I believe we
have a visitor. Yeah. Uh Kendall Pierce

418
00:36:43,359 --> 00:36:52,720
is here with Professional Code
Compliance uh just to present to you um

419
00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:57,760
about his services. Um and then uh yeah,
see where the conversation goes from.

420
00:36:55,920 --> 00:37:03,599
Well, welcome to the podium, Kendall.
How's it going? Sorry.

421
00:37:00,359 --> 00:37:07,359
Uh I got a couple things here. Um
there's only one copy, so if you guys

422
00:37:04,960 --> 00:37:12,480
don't mind passing them around. Um my
name is Kendall Pierce. I work um I'm

423
00:37:09,839 --> 00:37:17,720
actually the owner for um professional
code compliance. What we are is a third

424
00:37:14,560 --> 00:37:23,200
a third party um code enforcement
company. Uh we have currently right now

425
00:37:21,119 --> 00:37:30,040
roughly about 10 different towns
spanning from

426
00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:34,960
uh Burns to Howard to Cedarville to
Clearwater. Um and our recent um

427
00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:41,480
probably should have passed this out at
one time. I'm sorry. Uh our recent town

428
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:45,040
that we acquired is Goddard. So we have
been the just kind of a little

429
00:37:43,680 --> 00:37:49,079
background story. The way I got started
was I was sitting in a position just

430
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:54,320
like you guys. I was on my city council.
Um seemed like we contracted everything

431
00:37:51,520 --> 00:38:00,240
else out. Um couldn't figure out a way
to couldn't figure out a way to get, you

432
00:37:56,960 --> 00:38:03,359
know, the proper needs from um our
current code enforcement officer. And

433
00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:08,240
that wasn't her fault. that was the fact
that she wore five different hats. She

434
00:38:06,079 --> 00:38:11,440
was our, you know, she was the the chair
of the planning zoning board. She, you

435
00:38:09,839 --> 00:38:17,440
know, did all the inspe or not all the
inspections, but she um wrote all the

436
00:38:14,880 --> 00:38:22,400
permits. You know, she had several jobs
that she did. So, code enforcement tend

437
00:38:19,599 --> 00:38:29,040
to tend to fall, I don't know, I'd say a
little lower on her list. Um so, I asked

438
00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:31,920
um you know, the mayor, I was like, "Why
aren't we why aren't we contracting this

439
00:38:30,560 --> 00:38:38,880
out?" and they told me to look into it
and lo and behold, there's no one doing

440
00:38:34,359 --> 00:38:43,760
it. Every single town like yours has an
opportunity

441
00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:48,000
to make code enforcement um a top
priority. Unfortunately, it this doesn't

442
00:38:46,160 --> 00:38:52,880
happen that way. And obviously, it's
because everyone, you know, there is a

443
00:38:50,000 --> 00:38:57,920
lot of turnover in on city council. Um
so everybody has you know priorities and

444
00:38:54,640 --> 00:39:04,480
it tend tends to fall um a little by the
wayside which is why we started this

445
00:39:00,400 --> 00:39:10,400
company. Um kind of our process is we go
around and you know we'll drive every

446
00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:15,760
road in town and if we see a problem in
the town we you know we'll put those on

447
00:39:13,040 --> 00:39:20,640
that green flyer right there'll have um
more or less a a notice kind of gives

448
00:39:19,200 --> 00:39:26,880
you an idea of what the the code
enforcement is or the violation is. It

449
00:39:23,680 --> 00:39:32,320
gives you time to alleviate the issue.
We go take our pictures.

450
00:39:29,800 --> 00:39:36,720
Um, one thing I pride myself on though
is is the communication. I'm not going

451
00:39:34,480 --> 00:39:40,240
to sit here and say, "Oh, you know, John
Smith next door has one tire on next to

452
00:39:38,800 --> 00:39:44,800
his garage and we need to ride him a
violation." Right? My idea of code

453
00:39:42,560 --> 00:39:47,760
enforcement is if I don't want to be
your neighbor, your neighbor doesn't

454
00:39:46,320 --> 00:39:52,480
want to be your neighbor. And that's
just the cold hard truth. Um, so I go

455
00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:55,760
around and and and really we're not I'm
not trying to nitpick here. I'm trying

456
00:39:53,680 --> 00:39:59,680
to make sure that we can get the items
that, you know, when people do come into

457
00:39:57,760 --> 00:40:02,880
town, they're they're they're looking to
purchase here in town that there's, you

458
00:40:01,599 --> 00:40:07,040
know, curb appeal and there's health and
safety because those are two issues that

459
00:40:05,119 --> 00:40:12,480
tend to come across the code enforcement
desk um more often than not. So, what we

460
00:40:10,320 --> 00:40:17,920
do again, we take the pictures, um we go
ahead and um add them to our

461
00:40:15,560 --> 00:40:23,839
software. We go ahead and form the
letters. Um I mean, it's pretty basic.

462
00:40:20,880 --> 00:40:27,839
The the one thing that I would stress is
that we're we're a third party

463
00:40:25,280 --> 00:40:31,400
contractor. So there won't be, hey, he's
picking on me. Oh, he's doing this.

464
00:40:30,240 --> 00:40:37,359
Like,
well, maybe maybe you feel that way, but

465
00:40:33,839 --> 00:40:41,280
I I know nobody here in town. So, um I
can't necessarily say that I'm picking

466
00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:47,760
on somebody or or that you guys, you
know, my my idea is I tell every every

467
00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:52,560
um city council that I have no desire to
know who you guys have, you know,

468
00:40:50,560 --> 00:40:57,680
current active violations with. I'll let
you guys take that and then I start new

469
00:40:55,599 --> 00:41:03,280
um once once everything's over just
because I don't want it to carry over

470
00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:06,960
and have have an issue. Um, again,
communication with the residents is very

471
00:41:04,960 --> 00:41:10,720
important to me. If somebody calls says,
"Hey, I can't get this done X, Y, and

472
00:41:08,720 --> 00:41:15,839
Z." Okay, that's fine. I'm more than
willing to to give the extension. Um the

473
00:41:13,839 --> 00:41:21,280
issue is whenever, you know, you're down
to two, three, four extensions down the

474
00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:27,200
line, and um it tends to, you know,
nothing's getting done.

475
00:41:23,560 --> 00:41:32,720
Um, so I I we give our, you know, I give
my cell phone out, I give my my email

476
00:41:29,440 --> 00:41:37,599
out. I I ask that the residents call me.
If that's a, you know, a hated message

477
00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:39,760
or, you know, it's it's a nice message,
it doesn't matter. It's the fact that

478
00:41:38,720 --> 00:41:43,119
we're establishing a line of
communication with the residents and we

479
00:41:41,680 --> 00:41:48,319
both know that, hey, this is what we're
going to do and we're not going away.

480
00:41:45,160 --> 00:41:52,319
Um, so that's kind of it's kind of the
process. Again, it's it's no different

481
00:41:50,640 --> 00:41:56,000
than, you know, kind of normal code
enforcement. We're just taking it and

482
00:41:54,160 --> 00:42:01,599
contracting it out and making it a third
party option that

483
00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:06,240
um again, you you guys don't have to sit
there and take the beating of, oh,

484
00:42:03,680 --> 00:42:10,160
you're picking on me. And city clerk
just gives them my phone

485
00:42:07,640 --> 00:42:14,400
number. Um I just want to share this
with you guys real quick. I think it's I

486
00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:18,480
don't know. I'm maybe just bragging
about myself. I don't know. Um, this is

487
00:42:16,720 --> 00:42:23,680
from the community development manager
in Gddard. Says, "Kindle, I shared your

488
00:42:21,520 --> 00:42:28,880
um company cam, which is the the website
we use. I uh shared your company cam at

489
00:42:26,880 --> 00:42:33,440
a glance with the city administrator and
the mayor this afternoon, and we were

490
00:42:30,960 --> 00:42:37,599
thoroughly impressed with um let's say
with all your good work in the short uh

491
00:42:36,079 --> 00:42:40,560
short order of two weeks. Good job,
guys, and thank you. You may want to

492
00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:47,640
watch city council meeting tomorrow
night as you may get be

493
00:42:42,839 --> 00:42:52,400
highlighted. Goddard has seven housing
developments. All seven have HOAs. If

494
00:42:50,960 --> 00:42:56,880
you're getting a community developer to
say, "Hey, good job." That means the

495
00:42:54,319 --> 00:43:03,240
HOAs aren't doing their job and that I'm
able to come in there and, you know, at

496
00:42:58,720 --> 00:43:07,440
least help um guide the town to where I
think, you know, it fits in their your

497
00:43:05,760 --> 00:43:10,680
guys' code. So, how well do you get
along with that administrator over there

498
00:43:08,960 --> 00:43:15,680
in Goddard,
Craig? I don't mind. Hi. I camp with his

499
00:43:13,760 --> 00:43:21,760
parents. So, okay. Let me know if you
need anything on him. Oh, Craig. Yeah,

500
00:43:18,720 --> 00:43:24,880
he's uh he's a good guy. It was It took,
you know, it's kind of like, you know,

501
00:43:23,040 --> 00:43:27,680
with us, I've been talking to Ethan for,
you know, a couple months here and

502
00:43:26,000 --> 00:43:31,440
there, and, you know, this isn't
something that I assumed would be, hey,

503
00:43:29,359 --> 00:43:34,560
you know, let's get it done. Let's, you
know, whenever I had a meeting with him,

504
00:43:32,720 --> 00:43:39,119
I didn't expect us to have a signed
contract. You know, obviously it comes

505
00:43:36,720 --> 00:43:42,880
through you guys, but um I want to be
able to come in here and be able to

506
00:43:40,720 --> 00:43:48,880
answer any questions. Um, if you guys
had anything for me, uh, I'm an open

507
00:43:45,960 --> 00:43:51,839
book. I'm I'm going to work hard, like I
said, and I'm going to do the job that

508
00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:56,720
needs to be done, what you guys are
paying for, because again, you're a

509
00:43:54,640 --> 00:44:02,400
small town and tax dollars go a long
ways.

510
00:43:58,960 --> 00:44:08,720
Question. I saw uh on one of those on
your flyer that you do structural uh

511
00:44:05,440 --> 00:44:13,520
deterioration. Uh, you look at that. Do
you do any building and safety

512
00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:16,640
inspection? I didn't notice see that.
That's a whole other animal, but I just

513
00:44:15,200 --> 00:44:22,000
know if you had background in that.
Yeah. So, we we don't

514
00:44:18,839 --> 00:44:26,880
um No, that's just a quick answer.
Everyone everyone asked that one or uh

515
00:44:24,400 --> 00:44:30,960
animal animal control. It's like I don't
have the insurance for animal control.

516
00:44:29,280 --> 00:44:35,359
If you could consider animal control
along with that, we might be able to.

517
00:44:33,680 --> 00:44:40,960
Yeah. Unfortunately, I think this is
where the road we're heading. And like I

518
00:44:37,680 --> 00:44:47,119
said in the short time we've um I kind
of want to preface this. My my business

519
00:44:42,800 --> 00:44:52,400
partner is also a um prosecuting or
excuse me

520
00:44:48,680 --> 00:44:57,680
um a city lawyer for Elorado
um Andover Benton and Towanda. So he's

521
00:44:55,200 --> 00:45:01,599
had over 20 years experience with this.
Um and he helps whenever we get to that

522
00:44:59,920 --> 00:45:05,119
point and we have to you know go to
court he helps make sure that we have

523
00:45:03,119 --> 00:45:09,839
all the I'm sure he'll be talking to
you. Um Rob Lane, I don't know if you've

524
00:45:07,359 --> 00:45:14,720
heard of him. Yeah, I do. Yeah. So, he'd
be the one, you know, organizing, hey,

525
00:45:12,800 --> 00:45:18,640
or communicating if if you had any
questions and I'm not quite sure what

526
00:45:16,880 --> 00:45:24,079
you're talking about. I just say, hey,
Rob. So,

527
00:45:21,119 --> 00:45:29,200
um yeah. So, you would be the primary
employee then or do you have a larger

528
00:45:26,720 --> 00:45:33,040
staff that helps you considering there's
some larger communities other than

529
00:45:30,880 --> 00:45:38,640
Holstead that you'd be? Yeah. So, right
now, I think in our um I I would be the

530
00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:43,440
only one here in town, right? Um if
there was a if there was ever a chance

531
00:45:41,520 --> 00:45:47,680
that I was sick or something, it would
be something that I would have to

532
00:45:44,640 --> 00:45:51,760
discuss um with most likely Ethan or
whoever I'm reporting to and say, "Hey,

533
00:45:50,240 --> 00:45:55,520
I can't catch it this week. I'll be
there next week." So, um it's one of

534
00:45:54,240 --> 00:46:01,040
those things that we would have to push
off just due to the fact that it's

535
00:45:57,760 --> 00:46:08,240
myself, my office manager, and then
obviously Rob as a business partner.

536
00:46:03,960 --> 00:46:14,160
Um we have had opportunities to expand,
but I don't think I'm there yet. Um I I

537
00:46:12,000 --> 00:46:20,160
work live in my truck, you know, pretty
much. So, I bounce around from community

538
00:46:17,359 --> 00:46:24,319
to community. Um, and if I have to take
time to to answer some emails, you know,

539
00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:28,800
it's we're right there in the truck, so
it's not not anything that's too

540
00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:34,480
concerning. But yes, to your point, to
your your question, I would be the only

541
00:46:30,400 --> 00:46:34,480
one in town. Um, and

542
00:46:34,599 --> 00:46:43,599
then the services. Sorry, I did read
through, but you would come through town

543
00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:49,280
approximately how frequently was our
contract? Can we say that?

544
00:46:46,079 --> 00:46:53,040
So it would be I believe it was 30 hours
which it was about seven and a half

545
00:46:50,800 --> 00:46:59,599
hours a week which would equate to
probably two or three times um a month I

546
00:46:56,960 --> 00:47:05,200
would imagine. So I like So even with
the 30 hours I I'm a a person of routine

547
00:47:03,119 --> 00:47:08,880
and I need to have the structure. So if
you guys are my Tuesday, you're my

548
00:47:07,520 --> 00:47:13,280
Tuesday. You know what I mean? So it's
not going to change. And if I go over

549
00:47:10,319 --> 00:47:18,640
those 30 hours, well, shame on me for,
you know, talking for us getting it

550
00:47:15,760 --> 00:47:22,960
negotiated down to 30 hours, right? Um,
that's on me. And right, so be it. You

551
00:47:21,280 --> 00:47:28,240
guys aren't going to get charged more
for me going over, you know, especially

552
00:47:25,200 --> 00:47:32,880
when I do I do quarterly um updates with
city council. So, I'll come in here

553
00:47:29,520 --> 00:47:38,079
every quarter. um if I have to go to if
we have to go to trial um then I'll be

554
00:47:35,920 --> 00:47:42,240
there as a as a witness of hey here's
what we've taken pictures of here's

555
00:47:39,760 --> 00:47:47,119
everything we need. So again those
additional

556
00:47:43,480 --> 00:47:53,200
hours they're they're on me. So So how
long do you think it would take you to

557
00:47:48,960 --> 00:47:58,880
drive through a town hallstead size?
Hallstead. I would say I think I had

558
00:47:56,200 --> 00:48:04,000
roughly at about I would say like five
to seven hours depending on where we're

559
00:48:01,119 --> 00:48:09,119
at. Um and that's just you know that's
again stopping you know making sure that

560
00:48:06,560 --> 00:48:14,000
we have a the right address all the
facts in the book while I'm putting the

561
00:48:10,640 --> 00:48:19,040
information in. Um and then on top of
that, you know, we also have um

562
00:48:17,040 --> 00:48:23,200
obviously my office administrator hours
of, you know, mailing out the letters

563
00:48:20,960 --> 00:48:29,079
and and and getting all the reports over
to you guys, um updating any, you know,

564
00:48:26,400 --> 00:48:33,119
any information in our system.
So, I'm going to be honest, I feel like

565
00:48:31,359 --> 00:48:39,559
30 hours is probably going to be pretty
generous on your guys' side. Um, we're

566
00:48:36,000 --> 00:48:44,800
currently now given
um, you know, Goddard's a little bit

567
00:48:42,160 --> 00:48:53,119
bigger, but we have them at right around
I want to say 90, I think. So,

568
00:48:49,800 --> 00:48:57,920
um, I I believe that's right. But again,
I'm I'm more than willing to um, show

569
00:48:56,240 --> 00:49:02,000
you guys what we can do. That's pretty
much what it is right now. It's just and

570
00:48:59,280 --> 00:49:07,040
we have a fourmon opt out window. Um, so
if you guys in four months don't like my

571
00:49:04,400 --> 00:49:10,800
services or um don't want to move on
with the contract with 30-day written

572
00:49:08,640 --> 00:49:16,160
notice, there's an opt out window. So,
well, are the our are are our codes here

573
00:49:13,359 --> 00:49:19,920
in Hallstead the same as codes across I
mean, are all city codes the same? Is

574
00:49:18,160 --> 00:49:25,920
that No, they're not all the same. No,
but there are fine tweaks um to two

575
00:49:23,520 --> 00:49:31,040
different codes, you know, um grass
length, um you know, duration. when

576
00:49:28,559 --> 00:49:35,400
you're not out there with a ruler like
no once it gets to that point and you

577
00:49:33,200 --> 00:49:41,839
guys wonder I
mean well here here's the problem

578
00:49:38,520 --> 00:49:45,280
is Mr. Jance wants to, you know, take
this or we have to take this to court

579
00:49:43,440 --> 00:49:50,880
and he's like, "Well, you didn't take
any pictures of it being 8 in. How am I

580
00:49:48,160 --> 00:49:55,119
supposed to have something, you know, so
yeah, sometimes if we do if you guys do

581
00:49:52,800 --> 00:49:59,119
end up abating a property due to tall
grass, there will be a picture with a

582
00:49:56,720 --> 00:50:02,800
yard stick." Now, every time, no,
because

583
00:50:00,359 --> 00:50:06,160
usually it doesn't it takes once or
twice to say, "Hey, can you mow your

584
00:50:04,319 --> 00:50:12,200
yard?" And they just need a kick in the
butt. Like you'd be so surprised how

585
00:50:07,920 --> 00:50:16,880
many times that's just the case.
So born people.

586
00:50:15,200 --> 00:50:21,040
Well, I've reached out to some citizens
and I've talked with them. A citizen I

587
00:50:18,800 --> 00:50:26,720
know who've been visited by our um
police officers who've and I asked a

588
00:50:24,240 --> 00:50:29,200
question. Would you rather have seen a
police officer come knock on your door

589
00:50:28,079 --> 00:50:33,040
and say, "Hey, you've got to get this
cleaned up." Or would you rather have

590
00:50:30,880 --> 00:50:37,119
seen somebody in in, you know, cargo
shorts and a t-sh? That's what they want

591
00:50:35,680 --> 00:50:39,800
to see. They want to want to see a
police officer because they have pallets

592
00:50:38,800 --> 00:50:44,640
in the
backyard. That was consistent. People

593
00:50:42,319 --> 00:50:47,839
they they just get real nervous when
they see a police officer. It's funny

594
00:50:46,400 --> 00:50:52,559
you say that. I just went to a seminar
out in Dodge City for uh the Kansas

595
00:50:50,480 --> 00:50:57,200
Association of Code Enforcement and that
was the one they one thing they say. So

596
00:50:54,400 --> 00:51:02,160
like for Miami Dade County, those code
enforcement officers belts, vests, you

597
00:50:59,920 --> 00:51:06,680
know, versus and he was trying to sit
here and relate to us. I'm like, there's

598
00:51:04,400 --> 00:51:11,359
no way I'm wearing a bulletproof
vest. If I wear a gun on someone here in

599
00:51:09,599 --> 00:51:16,160
Kansas and step on their property, it's
just going to look like I'm an instant

600
00:51:13,359 --> 00:51:21,839
threat to them. Yeah. Versus, you know,
this is my normal tire. I usually have

601
00:51:18,400 --> 00:51:25,920
something my my truck um we have magnets
that say code city code enforcement on

602
00:51:23,760 --> 00:51:31,440
them. So, there's no denying what I'm
doing. Um, and again, when a resident

603
00:51:28,480 --> 00:51:34,319
wants to, you know, talk to me, it's
it's I'm just a straight shooter. I'll

604
00:51:33,119 --> 00:51:38,960
tell you, hey, you got to clean your
yard up. I'm sorry. Like, this is

605
00:51:36,720 --> 00:51:43,520
obviously this pile of metal here that
any kid could climb over, right, would

606
00:51:40,880 --> 00:51:51,119
be an issue. So I don't have any
questions, but I do having done many a

607
00:51:46,800 --> 00:51:59,599
uh fire inspection and fire code stuff,
it's it is extremely time consuming and

608
00:51:55,520 --> 00:52:06,880
can be. So uh the need for uh that kind
of service is is way more than you think

609
00:52:02,800 --> 00:52:11,440
it is. I know from doing just what I've
done, school inspections and things of

610
00:52:08,720 --> 00:52:16,720
that nature over the years, there's a
lot of hours invested in that thing. So,

611
00:52:14,319 --> 00:52:21,200
and nobody likes to have somebody come
on their on their place and say, "Hey,

612
00:52:19,520 --> 00:52:24,880
maybe you ought to cut your grass." But,
you know, your neighbor would probably

613
00:52:23,119 --> 00:52:31,680
appreciate it. That's what I've always
said. I would if I was next to someone

614
00:52:28,880 --> 00:52:35,440
that didn't. So, uh I just think it's
pretty important that we

615
00:52:33,520 --> 00:52:40,319
look into it and just give you guys a
brief example. There's dandelions this

616
00:52:37,359 --> 00:52:45,040
year like crazy. Uh we've been we've
been getting rained out like crazy.

617
00:52:42,800 --> 00:52:50,800
Every note or every letter that I've
been sending out or flyer that I've been

618
00:52:46,880 --> 00:52:56,240
sending out, I've made it a point to put
call me. Like let's talk about this.

619
00:52:53,599 --> 00:52:59,680
This is just this is what I have to do.
But obviously I know that the grass is

620
00:52:57,839 --> 00:53:04,160
too wet to cut in certain situations,
you know, especially when it's, you

621
00:53:01,280 --> 00:53:08,400
know, ca midcfe, right? So I always make
it a point to say, "Call me. We'll talk

622
00:53:06,400 --> 00:53:12,000
about an extension and we'll get it
taken care of." I mean, it's it's that

623
00:53:10,079 --> 00:53:15,280
simple. And they they residents
appreciate that. They appreciate the

624
00:53:13,839 --> 00:53:19,440
fact that you there's someone there to
talk to. And it's not again, you're not

625
00:53:18,079 --> 00:53:23,920
just sitting there pointing their finger
telling them to clean up their yard or

626
00:53:20,800 --> 00:53:29,040
else like that's not how the primary of
what you do is people telling them to

627
00:53:27,119 --> 00:53:36,079
cut their grass. I mean is that like
what's that in a percentage of the

628
00:53:31,680 --> 00:53:39,839
citations that you I mean is it
percentage of it telling people that

629
00:53:37,760 --> 00:53:44,119
your grass is too tall or it jumps from
town to town? No.

630
00:53:41,480 --> 00:53:48,960
Um, I would say
that probably at this time of the year,

631
00:53:46,800 --> 00:53:54,800
yes. Like right off the bat when the
first mow needs to happen, probably. But

632
00:53:52,000 --> 00:53:59,760
other than I mean besides that, it's it
there's a lot of junk. Um, just piles of

633
00:53:57,520 --> 00:54:04,680
junk that or debris that needs to be
picked up in the yard. Um, and so I

634
00:54:02,559 --> 00:54:09,760
think those probably are the two
biggest. Um, and then motor vehicles.

635
00:54:07,359 --> 00:54:15,839
you guys I don't didn't see that you had
a a huge issue with it but Howard Kansas

636
00:54:13,680 --> 00:54:20,640
has bunch of junk vehicles right so
there it's just a matter of like what

637
00:54:18,160 --> 00:54:26,319
you see in the cities and then how you
want to face it um

638
00:54:24,000 --> 00:54:30,319
um well I'll say that I was I was
borderline I was could have gone either

639
00:54:27,920 --> 00:54:34,880
way on this but after talking with some
citizens knowing that it would relieve

640
00:54:32,720 --> 00:54:39,440
some tension with them but also what
really got me is that we are able to opt

641
00:54:36,720 --> 00:54:43,119
out of this in a quarter if we need to.
Yeah. So, we could try you out for three

642
00:54:41,280 --> 00:54:48,000
months. Yeah. Give you that 30-day
notice and we could be done. So, I think

643
00:54:45,440 --> 00:54:51,680
it's a it's it's worth trying. I think
it's a good experiment and I think it

644
00:54:49,680 --> 00:54:56,559
gives us an opportunity. It's like this
doesn't fit. So, let's keep moving.

645
00:54:54,079 --> 00:55:01,040
Right. So, and all my information, all
the the information that I have

646
00:54:59,200 --> 00:55:04,640
collected in those that I would be
collecting in those three months, I

647
00:55:03,040 --> 00:55:08,319
mean, it's yours, right? It's everything
that could be easily transferable to the

648
00:55:06,720 --> 00:55:13,760
next code enforcement officer or however
you want to to pursue that and and to

649
00:55:10,559 --> 00:55:17,359
continue with it as well. So, well, I
like the idea of removing our police

650
00:55:15,520 --> 00:55:23,119
department out of our code enforcement.
I do like that idea and uh our next item

651
00:55:21,200 --> 00:55:26,880
on our agenda is to set a work session
date. So, maybe the council can we can

652
00:55:25,520 --> 00:55:31,680
talk about this a little more at that
work session and get back to you. Yep,

653
00:55:29,359 --> 00:55:35,440
that works for me. Council, do you have
any other questions for Kendall and Mac?

654
00:55:33,599 --> 00:55:39,280
No, I mean I appreciate your time. I
think my like probably

655
00:55:39,720 --> 00:55:49,040
biggest I mean has always just been like
is the need high enough, you know what I

656
00:55:45,920 --> 00:55:53,920
mean? Like right do we really have a
high enough need to say that we need to

657
00:55:52,000 --> 00:55:56,839
bring in additional support? And so
that's where I'm at. So I guess that's

658
00:55:56,079 --> 00:56:04,319
something
I'll voice at the work session. Okay.

659
00:56:01,119 --> 00:56:09,119
Yeah, I mean every it's it's a need in
every community and obviously I'm a

660
00:56:06,640 --> 00:56:14,960
little part I have a hard time if like a
majority is that people don't cut their

661
00:56:10,720 --> 00:56:20,960
grass then I'm like right cut your grass
you know like why are we paying somebody

662
00:56:16,880 --> 00:56:24,640
to come in when you're a a citizen that
cut your grass you know and if you don't

663
00:56:22,559 --> 00:56:28,000
I mean I just have a if if we had a
bunch of junk or a bunch of whatever

664
00:56:26,000 --> 00:56:30,960
like you were saying but I'm like if if
you live next to where would you be

665
00:56:29,520 --> 00:56:35,359
preaching that way though or are we
saying it that way? Would I be saying

666
00:56:32,799 --> 00:56:40,400
what? Like it's just cut your grass, you
know, when if like I I just kind of

667
00:56:37,760 --> 00:56:45,440
assume that maybe the situation that
you're at right now is not that you have

668
00:56:42,720 --> 00:56:49,760
neighbors that are, you know, have junk
and piled up in their backyard and

669
00:56:47,040 --> 00:56:53,040
there's a fence and nobody wants no one
sees it, but you can still smell it and

670
00:56:51,440 --> 00:56:57,119
rodents are affecting you. You know what
I mean? Like there's there's a I mean,

671
00:56:55,599 --> 00:57:00,319
yeah. I don't know what you mean because
I can't like I don't know. He doesn't

672
00:56:59,040 --> 00:57:04,960
live in a neighborhood like Yeah. I'm
like I really don't. And I've never

673
00:57:02,880 --> 00:57:13,440
heard of anybody like in the community
sharing that that's something I mean. So

674
00:57:10,079 --> 00:57:17,520
I mean I guess I wish that then they
would report that or whatever. So then

675
00:57:15,440 --> 00:57:22,480
you know because none of that in regards
to has been on the reports of things

676
00:57:19,440 --> 00:57:26,640
that we've had issues with. So according
to the data that was gathered like

677
00:57:24,319 --> 00:57:29,839
that's not a high pro is what I guess I
was saying. I'm not saying it's not a

678
00:57:28,079 --> 00:57:37,359
problem, but the data that was presented
to me is like weeds and yard stuff, you

679
00:57:33,200 --> 00:57:41,680
know, not hoarding and right, whatever.
Yeah, it's out there. They're out there.

680
00:57:39,520 --> 00:57:45,359
It's out there.
We've pursued a few of those cases

681
00:57:43,359 --> 00:57:50,640
already. Yeah. And I would say that's
one of the value ads of at least third

682
00:57:47,520 --> 00:57:55,280
party over the current model we utilize
with the PD is um and you saw if you

683
00:57:53,520 --> 00:57:59,440
went through things like when you're
getting more into the dilapidated

684
00:57:57,359 --> 00:58:03,839
deteriorating structures but not to the
point any residential structure um I

685
00:58:01,680 --> 00:58:08,480
mean that is completely out of the PD's
Bailey wick and I mean chief and I had

686
00:58:06,480 --> 00:58:13,440
conversations about that they are very
on whether grass is 12 inches or not is

687
00:58:11,359 --> 00:58:18,079
kind of a yes no when it gets into is
someone sight hiding on their house bad

688
00:58:15,200 --> 00:58:22,160
enough that you know this needs to be
followed via or pursued more

689
00:58:20,480 --> 00:58:26,000
aggressively via code. They're very
uncomfortable with making that

690
00:58:23,280 --> 00:58:29,240
delineation because that gets into more
building and and a matter of expertise.

691
00:58:28,319 --> 00:58:33,680
And
so having having a party that's gone

692
00:58:31,920 --> 00:58:38,240
through code enforcement school can you
know make that reasonable judgment um is

693
00:58:36,400 --> 00:58:43,440
definitely value add on those those
cases. Um and it kind of gets into junk

694
00:58:41,359 --> 00:58:48,480
too of as we've discussed in work
sessions and stuff when we talked about

695
00:58:44,640 --> 00:58:53,119
this of there is that fine line between
you know no one wants the city to

696
00:58:50,880 --> 00:58:57,319
operate like a like an HOA but at the
same time um you know every community

697
00:58:55,680 --> 00:59:04,000
has these struggles too
of is that implement in your yard really

698
00:59:00,240 --> 00:59:07,599
yard art or is it junk? Is it and and
then your success rate in getting those

699
00:59:05,839 --> 00:59:11,520
things turned around you feel like is
fairly high? Yeah, we've had I can't

700
00:59:09,760 --> 00:59:14,079
tell because that's the other like if
somebody's got a bunch of stuff in their

701
00:59:12,880 --> 00:59:19,920
backyard and that's the way they've been
living their life for however long like

702
00:59:16,079 --> 00:59:24,480
Yeah. No, we've had some and I can show
like whenever you know I can take down

703
00:59:22,880 --> 00:59:30,880
your information. And I can show you
like just actual hoarding

704
00:59:27,480 --> 00:59:36,240
situations that went from that to, you
know, at least it may be some chaos, but

705
00:59:33,760 --> 00:59:41,839
it's controlled chaos, right? Or or
properties in Cedarville and Howard that

706
00:59:39,520 --> 00:59:46,240
are completely demolished because you
call the bar, you call the the resident

707
00:59:44,400 --> 00:59:49,359
and say or the owner and say, "Hey, what
are we what's the plans with this

708
00:59:47,359 --> 00:59:52,799
property? I just need to tear it down."
Okay. And then next thing you know, now

709
00:59:51,520 --> 00:59:57,760
I'm asking them to clean up a pile of
rubble, right? Like it's there's been so

710
00:59:55,680 --> 01:00:00,400
many I wouldn't be doing this if I
didn't see success. I'm be honest with

711
00:59:59,119 --> 01:00:05,119
you. I'm not here to collect a paycheck
from you guys. I'm here to make sure

712
01:00:02,079 --> 01:00:10,799
that the pay that the properties, you
know, stay within your guys' code and

713
01:00:07,040 --> 01:00:14,559
that this doesn't become an issue where
if you look at Howard 10 years ago on

714
01:00:12,480 --> 01:00:20,160
Google Maps versus what it was what it
was before I started, you guys your jaw

715
01:00:17,520 --> 01:00:25,760
would drop. It it's just it doesn't take
long for a town to deteriorate.

716
01:00:24,319 --> 01:00:29,119
Well, I appreciate all the information
you provided and for answering

717
01:00:27,119 --> 01:00:37,799
questions. Thank you. No problem. Thanks
for sir. Yep. Sounds good.

718
01:00:34,079 --> 01:00:37,799
Yeah, just let me know.

719
01:00:38,720 --> 01:00:44,319
We could make a motion on it if we
wanted to. I mean, you guys, we could

720
01:00:42,400 --> 01:00:48,880
make a motion on it if we wanted to. We
wanted to. We could. Charlie Robinson

721
01:00:46,240 --> 01:00:53,440
text me earlier. I'm I mean, I mean, I'm
fine with it. I think I'm the only

722
01:00:50,880 --> 01:00:57,680
opposition. All right. And I feel like
he justified some of my concerns. Talked

723
01:00:56,079 --> 01:01:02,079
about it in the work session. We do a
work session. Speaking of next item on

724
01:01:00,000 --> 01:01:10,160
the agenda, we need to establish a work
session. I would schedule. This is going

725
01:01:06,559 --> 01:01:14,480
to be primarily budget stuff, right? Uh
yeah, we'll revisit budget priorities.

726
01:01:12,400 --> 01:01:18,480
Um and then capital projects for sure,
but there okay we can always add

727
01:01:16,640 --> 01:01:21,839
whatever you all would like to throw on
that agenda as well let's have a final

728
01:01:20,079 --> 01:01:27,520
conversation about this code enforcement
at that and then when would you like to

729
01:01:24,319 --> 01:01:32,240
do that Ethan roughly uh I asked for a
Wednesday because I'm teaching on

730
01:01:29,839 --> 01:01:38,799
Tuesdays and Thursdays for the next two
months. Yeah. Um can we avoid the

731
01:01:35,680 --> 01:01:46,400
seventh? I'll be out of town. I said mid
to late May. So I would say any the week

732
01:01:42,000 --> 01:01:52,960
of May 12th or the 19th or even the week
of Memorial Day,

733
01:01:49,599 --> 01:01:59,119
May 14th.
I'm good. I'm good. Y Shauna, I think

734
01:01:56,079 --> 01:02:06,240
that works. Yes. What time do we want to
do it? Six.

735
01:02:02,319 --> 01:02:09,680
Everybody good with six? It works out.
Maybe just agree. Now, somebody

736
01:02:08,079 --> 01:02:12,720
formalized that by putting it in a
motion and we'll make it. Mayor, I'd

737
01:02:11,040 --> 01:02:17,359
make a motion to have our next work
scheduled work session at on May 6 at

738
01:02:15,440 --> 01:02:21,040
6:00 in the evening. May 14th. Oh, I'm
sorry. May 14th. Yes. At 6:00 in the

739
01:02:18,880 --> 01:02:25,040
evening.
It's going to require a second. Council

740
01:02:22,960 --> 01:02:29,520
second. Second.
Got a motion, a second to schedule the

741
01:02:26,960 --> 01:02:35,520
next work session for May 14th at 6 PM.
All in favor say I. I. I. Sign. We do

742
01:02:33,440 --> 01:02:38,160
have work session.
We're going to move our executive

743
01:02:36,799 --> 01:02:42,799
session to the end of the meeting. So,
now we'll get into the uh report

744
01:02:40,520 --> 01:02:47,359
section. And I'm just going to start off
with these three proclamations Julie

745
01:02:45,359 --> 01:02:55,079
just handed me.
Did you give them to me in order, Julie?

746
01:02:50,559 --> 01:02:55,079
Probably not. No, you didn't.

747
01:02:55,119 --> 01:03:03,280
Okay, I got them in order
now. So, the first one is an Arbor Day

748
01:03:01,359 --> 01:03:07,760
proclamation.
Whereas in 1872, Jay Sterling Morton

749
01:03:06,079 --> 01:03:12,559
proposed to the Nebraska Board of
Agriculture that a special day be set

750
01:03:09,760 --> 01:03:17,119
aside for the planting of trees. And
whereas this holiday called Arbor Day

751
01:03:14,640 --> 01:03:21,280
was first observed with the planting of
more than a million trees in

752
01:03:18,839 --> 01:03:25,440
Nebraska. And whereas Arbor Day is now
observed through the nation and the

753
01:03:23,119 --> 01:03:30,400
world. And whereas trees can reduce the
erosion of our precious top soil by wind

754
01:03:28,079 --> 01:03:34,640
and water, cut heating and cooling
costs, moderate the temperature, clean

755
01:03:32,400 --> 01:03:40,160
the air, produce oxygen, and provide
habitat for wildlife. And whereas trees

756
01:03:38,079 --> 01:03:44,799
are a renewable resource, giving us
paper, wood for our homes, fuel for our

757
01:03:43,280 --> 01:03:50,720
fires, and countless other wood
products. And whereas trees in our city

758
01:03:48,480 --> 01:03:55,480
increase property values, enhance the
economic vitality of business areas, and

759
01:03:53,920 --> 01:04:01,200
beautify our
community. And whereas trees are a

760
01:03:58,079 --> 01:04:05,760
source of joy and spiritual renewal. And
whereas Holstead has been recognized as

761
01:04:03,359 --> 01:04:11,200
a Tree City USA by the National Arbor
Day Foundation and desires to continue

762
01:04:08,480 --> 01:04:16,319
its tree planting ways. And now
therefore, I, Dennis Travis, mayor of

763
01:04:13,359 --> 01:04:22,079
the city of Holstead, do hereby proclaim
April 25th, 2025 as Arbor Day in the

764
01:04:19,680 --> 01:04:25,920
city of Holstead. And I urge all
citizens to support efforts to care for

765
01:04:24,000 --> 01:04:31,280
our trees and woodlands and to support
our city's community forestry program.

766
01:04:28,720 --> 01:04:35,039
And further, I urge all citizens to
plant trees to gladden the hearts and

767
01:04:33,119 --> 01:04:42,240
promote the well-being of present and
future generations.

768
01:04:37,280 --> 01:04:42,240
dated this day, 28th day of April,

769
01:04:42,280 --> 01:04:51,520
2025. The only bad time to be a Tree
City USA is when a datio

770
01:04:49,079 --> 01:04:56,400
comes. That one's still pretty fresh in
everybody's

771
01:04:53,240 --> 01:05:02,319
mind. The next proclamation is for
public service recognition

772
01:04:59,559 --> 01:05:06,640
week. Whereas Americans are served every
single day by public servants at the

773
01:05:04,240 --> 01:05:11,280
federal, state, county, and city levels.
And these unsung heroes do the work that

774
01:05:08,720 --> 01:05:17,359
keeps our nation working. Whereas public
employees take not only jobs but oaths.

775
01:05:14,960 --> 01:05:22,640
Whereas many public servants including
military personnel, police officers,

776
01:05:19,640 --> 01:05:27,200
firefighters, border patrol officers,
embassy employees, health care

777
01:05:24,720 --> 01:05:30,720
professionals, and others risk their
lives each day in service to the people

778
01:05:29,119 --> 01:05:34,000
of the United States and around the
world.

779
01:05:31,920 --> 01:05:38,240
And whereas public servants include
teachers, doctors and scientists,

780
01:05:35,920 --> 01:05:42,640
trained conductors and astronauts,
nurses and safety inspectors, laborers,

781
01:05:40,640 --> 01:05:47,920
computer technicians and social workers,
and countless other occup

782
01:05:45,400 --> 01:05:52,240
occupations. Day in and day out, they
provide the diverse services demanded by

783
01:05:50,240 --> 01:05:57,280
the American people of their government
with efficiency and integrity. And

784
01:05:54,799 --> 01:06:01,200
whereas without these public servants at
every

785
01:05:58,200 --> 01:06:06,559
level, continuity would be impossible in
a democracy that regularly changes its

786
01:06:03,760 --> 01:06:10,480
leaders and elected officials. Whereas
the city of Hallstead wishes to

787
01:06:08,240 --> 01:06:15,920
recognize our dedicated local government
staff who provide invaluable service and

788
01:06:13,440 --> 01:06:19,839
support to Hallstead residents. Now
therefore, I, Dennis Travis, mayor of

789
01:06:17,839 --> 01:06:24,799
the city of Holstead, do hereby announce
and proclaim to all citizens and set

790
01:06:22,079 --> 01:06:30,160
seal hereto that May 4th through the
10th, 2025 is public service recognition

791
01:06:28,240 --> 01:06:34,400
week and encourage all citizens to
recognize the accomplishments and

792
01:06:32,559 --> 01:06:42,720
contributions of government employees at
all levels, federal, state, county, and

793
01:06:37,960 --> 01:06:42,720
city. Signed this 28th day of April,

794
01:06:43,880 --> 01:06:50,000
2025. And along with that, you council
members that are up for reelection, that

795
01:06:48,400 --> 01:06:55,359
should serve as a reminder to go get
registered. And I took care of mine

796
01:06:52,480 --> 01:07:00,480
today. So, you might be stuck with me
again.

797
01:06:58,000 --> 01:07:06,319
Well, this one's for Denise. This is a
Happy Nurses Week proclamation.

798
01:07:04,000 --> 01:07:11,599
Whereas registered nurses in the United
States constitute our nation's largest

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health care profession and whereas the
depth and breadth of the registered

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nursing profession meets the different
and emerging health care needs of the

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American population in a wide range of
settings including the front line of the

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01:07:22,440 --> 01:07:29,000
pandemic. And whereas professional
nursing is an indispensable component of

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01:07:27,039 --> 01:07:34,640
the safety and quality of care of
hospitalized and non-hospized patients.

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01:07:32,720 --> 01:07:39,359
And whereas more qualified registered
nurses are needed in the future to meet

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01:07:37,359 --> 01:07:44,319
increasingly complex needs of health
care consumers in this community. And

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01:07:42,319 --> 01:07:49,680
whereas along with the American Nurses
Association has declared May 6th through

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01:07:46,720 --> 01:07:54,799
the 12th as nurses week with the theme,
the power of nurses with appreciation

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01:07:52,319 --> 01:08:00,160
for nurses unparalleled impact in their
contributions to health care and an open

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01:07:57,440 --> 01:08:04,680
invitation to thank a nurse for
enriching our lives and in the world we

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01:08:02,160 --> 01:08:09,520
live in. Therefore, it
be you put it in there twice now.

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01:08:07,760 --> 01:08:14,000
Therefore, I, Dennis Travis, mayor of
the city of H Hallstead, ask that all

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01:08:11,200 --> 01:08:18,799
residents of Holstead, Kansas, join me
in honoring the registered nurses who

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01:08:16,319 --> 01:08:23,520
care for all of us. And be it further
resolved that the residents celebrate

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01:08:20,719 --> 01:08:27,759
registered nurses accomplishments and
efforts to improve our health care

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01:08:25,199 --> 01:08:32,319
system. And show our appreciation for
the nation's registered nurses, not just

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01:08:30,640 --> 01:08:38,080
during this week, but at every
opportunity throughout the year. Signed

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01:08:34,400 --> 01:08:42,799
this 28th day of April, 2025.
And my daughter's also a nurse, so that

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01:08:40,080 --> 01:08:47,279
was for her, too. There you go. Well,
that concludes my proclamations. We'll

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01:08:45,120 --> 01:08:50,799
move on to governing body comments
tonight. I will start since it's nurses.

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01:08:49,679 --> 01:08:55,359
Well, there you go. We'll start with
Denise tonight. I don't have anything

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01:08:53,600 --> 01:09:00,480
other than I hope everybody had a happy
Easter and looking forward to some

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01:08:57,600 --> 01:09:05,279
better weather.
Sea

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01:09:02,159 --> 01:09:08,960
George, I do have something.
citizen reached out to me about a week

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01:09:07,279 --> 01:09:13,279
and a half ago and had a question
regarding

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01:09:10,520 --> 01:09:20,600
um elected officials being able to have
an opinion. I reached out to the Kansas

826
01:09:16,400 --> 01:09:26,640
League of Municipalities legal team and
I presented what our our issue was here,

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01:09:24,640 --> 01:09:30,640
gave him a real good idea. And so he
wrote a generic response and I'm going

828
01:09:28,719 --> 01:09:35,600
to read this and then I'd like to also
state to this let citizens know

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01:09:33,319 --> 01:09:39,679
that I spoke with Ethan and he would
also make this available to any citizen

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01:09:37,199 --> 01:09:43,199
who might want it. This is George per
our conversation from earlier today

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01:09:41,359 --> 01:09:48,159
elected officials are allowed to have
personal opinions and are allowed to

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01:09:45,359 --> 01:09:53,279
express those personal opinions. Ways in
which public officials may express those

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01:09:50,799 --> 01:09:58,199
opinions would be through posts on their
personal social media media pages or

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01:09:56,239 --> 01:10:05,520
through signage on their personal
property. As long as there are no or no

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01:10:01,640 --> 01:10:09,679
propo proping purporting to speak on
behalf of the city and do not have

836
01:10:07,520 --> 01:10:14,159
actual authority to speak on behalf of
the city, they may express their own

837
01:10:12,199 --> 01:10:21,360
opinions. Please let me know if you have
any additional questions.

838
01:10:16,600 --> 01:10:26,239
Um, so that was from the Kansas League
legal team and League of Green. Kansas

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01:10:24,400 --> 01:10:32,320
League municipalities, I'm sorry. Yes.
And um if any citizens uh want a copy of

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01:10:30,400 --> 01:10:35,280
this, I did forward this to Ethan and he
could make it available to

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01:10:35,800 --> 01:10:46,800
you. That's all I have. Your turn, Jim.
All right. Um I don't really have a

842
01:10:43,280 --> 01:10:53,920
whole lot. Um, I always, uh, when people
come into meetings and, uh, and talk in

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01:10:50,640 --> 01:10:57,920
the public forum, whether we're eye to
eye or whether we're not eye to eye or

844
01:10:56,000 --> 01:11:03,880
whether we're talking the same language
sometime and not talking the same

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01:10:59,640 --> 01:11:11,760
language, I still want to say I
appreciate that because if you don't get

846
01:11:06,960 --> 01:11:16,400
any feedback of anything, then you know,
we can hear somebody's somebody ask us a

847
01:11:14,640 --> 01:11:21,280
question and if somebody really knows me
they'll send me a message or they'll

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01:11:18,480 --> 01:11:27,199
find me on the street or whatever that's
not uncommon especially for me I guess

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01:11:24,560 --> 01:11:31,920
just because and I do a lot of walking
so I have a lot of conversations with

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01:11:29,920 --> 01:11:38,800
with people just from walking down the
street but I don't want to to brush away

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01:11:35,520 --> 01:11:45,199
anything because even the comments here
tonight um is somebody's opinion and I

852
01:11:42,800 --> 01:11:52,880
appreciate appreciate that fact just
like I I I want them to appreciate our

853
01:11:50,239 --> 01:11:58,400
our due diligence in what we're trying
to do. You know, we all have our

854
01:11:55,520 --> 01:12:01,760
opinions and we all have uh what we
think is right and what is wrong and

855
01:12:00,159 --> 01:12:09,120
sometimes we don't even know what right
or wrong yet, you know, unless we have a

856
01:12:05,440 --> 01:12:14,800
pretty good clear picture of that. And I
I just want to reinforce that that uh

857
01:12:11,920 --> 01:12:22,400
there's nothing hidden in at least in my
book or anybody that I know of that uh I

858
01:12:18,800 --> 01:12:27,120
just want to see it. Um you know, I
can't make a any kind of statements on

859
01:12:25,120 --> 01:12:35,280
stuff and things like that if I don't
even know what I'm making a statement

860
01:12:29,800 --> 01:12:41,920
on, you know. Um and I want to just to
uh go ahead and reinforce that.

861
01:12:38,880 --> 01:12:48,000
That's it. Appreciate that, Jim. Ethan,
we'll move on to you for your city

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01:12:43,920 --> 01:12:53,040
manager report and you uh just start off
this Saturday, May 3rd from 9 to noon is

863
01:12:50,480 --> 01:13:00,320
the city's annual rabies clinic. Uh
vaccinations are $8. Um being done by

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01:12:57,360 --> 01:13:06,640
Maple Ridge again and you can also
register your cat or dog uh with the

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city at that time as well. Uh we are
down to five uh temporary construction

866
01:13:09,040 --> 01:13:17,120
easements that still need signed uh to
move forward with our safe routes to

867
01:13:13,159 --> 01:13:23,040
school construction grant. So we are
working diligently to try and get those

868
01:13:18,960 --> 01:13:28,239
remaining five uh properties to uh get
those easements in place. Uh Julie did

869
01:13:26,080 --> 01:13:31,920
file a continuing disclosure notice
which will be in your next packet in the

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01:13:30,400 --> 01:13:36,239
consent agenda, but she did file a
continuing disclosure notice uh for the

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01:13:34,080 --> 01:13:41,320
city issuance of that wastewater
treatment plant loan uh which is a

872
01:13:38,960 --> 01:13:47,440
requirement for some of our existing
bond debt. Uh I just want to point out

873
01:13:44,719 --> 01:13:54,480
we did have a land bank meeting earlier
this evening and the land bank uh has

874
01:13:50,000 --> 01:14:00,199
voted to accept 217 Main Street. Um, so
we will get that started uh once we get

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01:13:57,840 --> 01:14:06,040
that contract signed to
take for the land bank to take

876
01:14:02,400 --> 01:14:12,000
possession of uh the former loose brick.
Uh Julie and staff met with FEMA today.

877
01:14:10,000 --> 01:14:20,120
Uh we are hopefully finishing up our
FEMA reporting and all the uh schedules

878
01:14:16,560 --> 01:14:28,360
that we have to uh submit in order to
uh have our public assistance claim on

879
01:14:23,360 --> 01:14:33,199
the um May 19th the May do from last
year. Uh it was included in your packet,

880
01:14:31,440 --> 01:14:39,440
but I just want to call out uh the
efforts of staff. Um, we did receive a

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01:14:37,040 --> 01:14:43,760
thousand dollar check from the Kansas
County Association multi-line pool,

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01:14:41,840 --> 01:14:48,719
which is our property and liability
insurer, and that check was awarded to

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01:14:46,080 --> 01:14:52,800
us for our efforts uh in risk
management, and that we have a low

884
01:14:50,800 --> 01:14:58,159
modifier claim. So, we're not putting a
lot of claims there. So, um, again, just

885
01:14:55,760 --> 01:15:02,199
I want to thank staff for their efforts
in keeping our claims down and being

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01:15:00,159 --> 01:15:06,800
responsible with city
property. Kansas Department of Commerce

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01:15:04,480 --> 01:15:11,360
came last Wednesday morning and toured
Rubies and Daphne May Cafe. Uh, and that

888
01:15:10,080 --> 01:15:16,640
was done as part of community
development week. So, the assistant uh,

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01:15:13,800 --> 01:15:21,920
secretary for commerce was here. And I
just want to thank Tessa Windling uh,

890
01:15:18,800 --> 01:15:26,640
for allowing uh, Commerce to come and
for being such a gracious host. And it

891
01:15:24,080 --> 01:15:30,480
was very uh, and I want to thank Jim for
showing up that morning bright and early

892
01:15:28,480 --> 01:15:35,199
to also meet with Commerce. They had
about uh eight reps there from the

893
01:15:33,760 --> 01:15:41,040
department and they're just going around
touring uh successful grants and where

894
01:15:38,640 --> 01:15:45,840
we've had public and private cooperation
and it still just amazes me to see uh

895
01:15:43,520 --> 01:15:50,239
what Tesla's done with that building um
and where 204 where it started when the

896
01:15:48,560 --> 01:15:55,520
city originally uh got possession of it
in the land bank to where it is now. So

897
01:15:52,800 --> 01:16:00,560
really great to showcase that. a lot of
positive comments about the town um from

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01:15:58,480 --> 01:16:06,080
all those visitors to our community. So,
it was just a great event. Um and then

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01:16:03,440 --> 01:16:09,280
we are still working on uh moving our
streaming over to YouTube. Had some

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01:16:08,159 --> 01:16:14,960
efforts. We're going to have to reach
out to our managed IT um to facilitate

901
01:16:13,199 --> 01:16:20,800
that change. But we are still working on
that um in light of Facebook changing

902
01:16:17,840 --> 01:16:24,320
its um video storage policy. Uh we also
believe it'll give us a little more

903
01:16:22,719 --> 01:16:30,320
control and be a little bit better
platform than Facebook live. So those

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01:16:27,199 --> 01:16:35,280
are what we are working on and things
that are going on right now.

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01:16:32,960 --> 01:16:39,480
Anybody have any questions of Ethan for
I did have one. I was just wondering

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01:16:37,840 --> 01:16:46,000
what the North
Street project is. Yeah. Um where we're

907
01:16:43,360 --> 01:16:51,120
at on that. We're between the 60 and 80%
mark as far as uh the preliminary

908
01:16:48,480 --> 01:16:58,239
engineering. Um, it probably comes as a
surprise to no one that um, BNSF

909
01:16:55,239 --> 01:17:02,640
and working with BNSF is is kind of one
of the holdups now to get some final

910
01:17:00,080 --> 01:17:07,360
questions answered. But we are planning
to hopefully get uh, meetings scheduled

911
01:17:05,120 --> 01:17:13,199
with the residents and the businesses to
go over the preliminary plans and yeah,

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01:17:10,800 --> 01:17:17,199
hopefully get that in motion as soon as
we can. Do we have a plat drawing of

913
01:17:15,520 --> 01:17:22,960
that yet?
We don't have the final. I mean, we're

914
01:17:19,840 --> 01:17:28,800
only a 60% mark, so you don't have like
they're still waiting on um some

915
01:17:25,600 --> 01:17:32,640
information and some uh asurances from
BNSF before they draw some of that.

916
01:17:30,800 --> 01:17:37,679
That's by the railroad track. I
understand that.

917
01:17:34,440 --> 01:17:40,960
So, no other questions for Ethan? A
question for this guy out here in the

918
01:17:39,040 --> 01:17:44,800
How come he has a Huntington Beach
t-shirt on?

919
01:17:43,199 --> 01:17:49,199
A few times. Are you from that out that
way? Oh.

920
01:17:46,920 --> 01:17:52,199
Okay. Maybe we were neighbors at one
time.

921
01:17:53,840 --> 01:17:59,239
A friend of his went there and all he
got was that t-shirt.

922
01:17:59,679 --> 01:18:07,840
Okay, we're ready for executive session
now. So, we'll wait for Jimmy to make

923
01:18:04,159 --> 01:18:13,159
that motion. All right, Mr. Mayor, I
move that the H Hallstead City Council

924
01:18:09,840 --> 01:18:18,880
recess into executive session to discuss
potential

925
01:18:15,000 --> 01:18:24,679
litigation cons to consult with the
attorney on matters that would deem

926
01:18:21,040 --> 01:18:28,880
privilege in the attorney client
relationship exemption

927
01:18:31,960 --> 01:18:42,040
KSA75-4319B3 to include the city
manager, the city attorney,

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01:18:37,679 --> 01:18:46,159
and would reconvene at 8:40.
Second. Have a motion and a second to

929
01:18:44,400 --> 01:18:53,840
enter into executive session. All in
favor say I. I. Post. Same

930
01:18:49,640 --> 01:18:53,840
sign. We'll move to the back room.

931
01:41:51,040 --> 01:42:01,040
We got something else to
say back from our executive session. Is

932
01:41:56,800 --> 01:42:01,040
there any action to be taken as a result

933
01:42:01,400 --> 01:42:08,320
of not hearing from the council? This
does conclude our agenda and I would

934
01:42:06,400 --> 01:42:14,960
entertain a motion for adjournment.
Before we do that, we failed during the

935
01:42:10,400 --> 01:42:18,560
city uh the city members um comments to
huge shout out to the H Hallstead music

936
01:42:16,960 --> 01:42:22,800
Hollstead high school music department.
They rocked it at state bringing home

937
01:42:21,119 --> 01:42:27,119
mostly ones. Yeah. Yeah. So
congratulations to every single one of

938
01:42:24,960 --> 01:42:31,679
our students. Um whether they were
vocal, mix groups, solos, band

939
01:42:29,760 --> 01:42:36,960
instruments, they just they did a
fantastic job. So Claire, fantastic job

940
01:42:35,360 --> 01:42:41,040
and congratulations to the kids.
Absolutely. Keep up the great work and

941
01:42:39,119 --> 01:42:45,280
it's going to be uh even more of a
challenge right now because they are

942
01:42:42,400 --> 01:42:49,520
demoing their auditorium. So, yes. Yes.
Um head out to the choir concerts coming

943
01:42:48,080 --> 01:42:53,119
up in the next couple of weeks, too.
Yep. It'll be good. You know, I want to

944
01:42:51,119 --> 01:42:56,320
piggyback on that a little bit because,
you know, I had to deliver this

945
01:42:54,639 --> 01:43:00,960
proclamation for the girls volleyball
team. I'll soon be doing another one at

946
01:42:59,119 --> 01:43:04,880
the school for the basketball team and I
understand that's mostly the same girls

947
01:43:02,719 --> 01:43:10,719
that are part of that team. Yep. And it
looks like they are out there stomping

948
01:43:06,800 --> 01:43:15,440
it in softball right now. So, man, if if
they can really put it together with

949
01:43:13,679 --> 01:43:20,159
their softball team this year, that's
just pretty cool. Yep. Yeah. And I

950
01:43:17,119 --> 01:43:24,000
believe we're hosting the softball um
regionals. So, if you're out and about

951
01:43:22,159 --> 01:43:28,639
during that, definitely head out and
check that out. Tough regional. Yeah.

952
01:43:26,960 --> 01:43:33,040
Couple of the top teams in the state in
3A. So, my girls were on that inaugural

953
01:43:30,880 --> 01:43:37,040
team and so we raised a lot of money to
have a successful softball program in H

954
01:43:35,040 --> 01:43:42,800
Hallstead. I am so glad we put that time
and effort into doing it%. Thank you.

955
01:43:41,199 --> 01:43:47,199
All right, good deal. I'm still waiting
for that motion to adjurnn. Oh, yeah.

956
01:43:44,639 --> 01:43:51,600
So, move. Let's adjourn. Let's go home.
We have a motion and a second for

957
01:43:48,880 --> 01:43:56,760
adjournment. All in favor say I. I. I.
Oppose. Same sign. We are journ. Thank

958
01:43:53,600 --> 01:43:56,760
you, councel.