[0:07] To the flag
of
[0:11] the stands, one nation under God,
indivisible, liberty and justice for all
[0:25] the regular meeting for January 20th,
2026 with the Harrington City Commission
[0:30] to order. Is there public forum?
[0:38] No public forum.
[0:44] Okay. Do we have a motion to consider
the minutes from the January 6 regular
[0:48] meeting?
We approve the minutes from January 6,
[0:52] 20 26 regular meeting.
>> A second.
[0:58] A motion in a second
discussion from any of us.
[1:03] Miss Lens
>> I
[1:07] » I
>> I
[1:11] have any additions or deletions that
we're going to add to the agenda?
[1:16] » No.
>> Um I do want to add in a 9
[1:20] a be a short recess
[1:26] probably be less than
[1:30] I'll make a motion we approve the agenda
with the addition of 9A is short recess.
[1:35] » I'll second it.
>> Motion and a second discussion.
[1:41] Miss Lens.
[1:44] » I I
>> I
[1:49] have the consent agenda.
[1:53] I'll make a motion that we approve the
consent agenda as written.
[1:58] » I'll second.
>> Motion in a second. Discussion.
[2:04] » Miss Lance.
I
[2:07] » I
I
[2:12] no proclamations, but I want to make
make a reminder that January 30th is a
[2:17] retirement ceremony for Lori Dorbush,
who is retiring from the city of
[2:22] Harrington as
our director for the Hilltop. So, I
[2:27] encourage you to come between 1 and 4
and show your support for her and her
[2:31] thanks for your service.
[2:35] Now have a discussion on 2026 insurance
renewals.
[2:41] » Mr. Becker, how are you?
>> Good evening. Thanks for the invite
[2:46] today.
>> Uh yeah, I've visited with uh city
[2:51] manager Modi here recently. We do have
the insurance renewal coming up. Uh we
[2:56] should start seeing numbers back for
that in probably the next week or two.
[3:01] Um, it's always our goal to get it out
to you guys plenty of time in that first
[3:06] week of March. So that way you at least
have a first read and a second if that's
[3:09] what you guys decide you want to do. Um,
feedback that I'm getting right now from
[3:15] from EMC from the information we've been
giving them is that renewals should be
[3:20] fairly I hate to use the word normal,
but uh more normal than they've been in
[3:26] the past few years, especially when it
comes to rate.
[3:30] the staff and um everybody you have
working for you has done a fantastic job
[3:35] the last couple years. Our loss ratio is
down on just right around 30%.
[3:40] Which is really really good. Um that
helps keep our rates rates low. This is
[3:46] still part of a dividend program. So um
that meaning they take all the
[3:50] municipalities that they write in the
state of Kansas at the end of the year
[3:54] if that is profitable they cut a check
back to us. So um like the last three
[3:58] years we've pushing right up on $80,000
in total return premium that we've
[4:04] received from EMC. Um
couple things to keep in mind. Um cities
[4:12] are are very limited in the markets that
they have um to write it because they
[4:16] are so complex. I mean we have things
like power plants and you know obviously
[4:20] um directors and officers and their
program is is phenomenal when it comes
[4:25] to that. They have what's called a
linebacker program. So it protects you
[4:28] as a board. It protects the management
does ours
[4:35] and officers does our employer
liability. So if we let someone go and
[4:39] now we're in the middle of a lawsuit or
there's sexual harassment, it actually
[4:43] defends both ways. So it's the person
accusing and the accused. So um tends to
[4:50] keep you know lawyer cost down and get
to settlement rather quickly. Ly knock,
[4:55] we haven't had a lot of that in the last
three years or actually any long had
[5:00] some good good luck with weather as
well. Um, you know, obviously
[5:06] we do have some challenges coming up. We
we know that um EMC has decided that
[5:11] they are no longer doing any
habitational when it comes to a city.
[5:16] So, we do have some of that. Um, we will
have options for you guys and and have
[5:21] that out plenty of time that we can over
it with you as well. Um, it's nothing
[5:27] that the city has done. It's just a a
class of business that they say,
[5:31] "Listen, we don't do it anywhere else.
We don't do it. We don't write home and
[5:35] auto insurance." So, it's just we're not
going to to do that as a as it was
[5:40] something they did at one time. So, um,
the only other thing that I might tell
[5:45] you that you need to look pretty heavily
into is a cyber policy. With with the
[5:51] way that things are changing in our
world, it's nothing for for bank
[5:56] accounts to get hacked or locked up or
froze. And we've talked about that in
[6:00] the past, but never um never really
pursued it. So, we're happy to offer
[6:05] that as well if that's something you
guys want us to do. We are coming up on
[6:11] It's a pretty tight window now. So, uh,
Patrick and I discussed that we can
[6:15] always, um, if budget season rolls
around, we really want to take a deep
[6:20] dive as a commission. We can sit down
and do that. But I will tell you that
[6:24] the department heads that I've met with
have done a really good job of trying to
[6:30] be cognizant of the taxpayers dollars.
You know, if they're if there's
[6:33] something that they don't utilize or use
anymore, that's going to surplus or they
[6:36] think it's going to go to surplus,
they're trying to get rid of it. They're
[6:39] lowering equipment if uh they're aging
out and then you know they're really
[6:45] trying to do the best they can as
they're trying to add stuff. So um if
[6:49] you have any questions I'll do my best
to answer them. If not we'll proceed
[6:54] ahead and and get the numbers out to you
as quickly as we can.
[6:58] » Uh I was attending some meetings before
and it talked about having issues
[7:03] ensuring the hilltop.
>> Is that still an issue?
[7:07] » It is. It is because there's a we have
housing in it. They they won't consider
[7:14] um insuring that building if we keep the
housing in it, which you guys absolutely
[7:19] can do and we can put that building on a
different policy and get get coverage
[7:23] for it. It just won't be on this policy.
>> I mean, it it has been for years.
[7:29] » Yes.
>> What changed?
[7:31] » Um
honestly, it's something that they they
[7:34] haven't liked to do for several years,
but we have not had losses. and we, you
[7:40] know, we fought to keep it on. They
finally drew a line in the sand and
[7:43] said, "We're doing no
exposures anyway." So, um,
[7:49] » so that'll include the hilltop and the
apartments.
[7:52] » Yep. We should be able to put all that
on one policy. So, um, you know, again,
[7:58] nothing that nothing that we did as a
city. It's just where they're where
[8:03] they're going. I have looked into some
other um carriers that are willing to c
[8:08] They won't do habitational either. even
on an exception basis, even with our
[8:13] loss ratios being good, it's just they
they don't mix municipality with
[8:20] » I will say that [clears throat] even on
the housing authority and with Rhonda,
[8:25] we've kind of identified at Golden Age
for example and that's not on EMC
[8:30] obviously, but the insurance costs are
continuing to climb and it's our
[8:35] property management company has said
it's it's really a statewide issue and
[8:39] they're struggling to find people to
ensure uh like apartment complexes and
[8:44] things of that nature. So I don't think
it's unique to see either. You look at a
[8:49] structure even like uh the Sunflower
building in Abene, it's an extremely
[8:55] large building.
>> To insure it to value is really hard to
[9:00] do because what would it cost to rebuild
a brick building that's seven stories
[9:04] tall? And then could you afford the
premium to do that when you're trying to
[9:08] keep rent at a reasonable rate? It's
just extremely difficult to do. So, um,
[9:14] not unique at all, but something that we
we can handle.
[9:20] » My question is about the Hilltop, too.
Are we seeing premium change that it's
[9:24] not with the EMC and it go with a
different company? Will we see a premium
[9:27] change?
>> Um, well, obviously it'll come off of
[9:30] the EMC policy. So, that will take the
EMC policy down. Where that lands on um
[9:37] the coverage they offer, what you guys
want to do with it, and we're going to
[9:40] give you some options.
could be up a little, could be down a
[9:44] little, but you know, it's gonna it's
going to we'll have options for you guys
[9:48] to make some decisions.
I think we budgeted up to 50 to up to
[9:54] 75,000, maybe closer to 50,000 by the
time it was all said and done for that
[9:58] expected increase on the hilltop. But
like Kyle said, we're going to bring
[10:02] some options on good, better, best
coverage maybe or
[10:07] » and and the other thing that the other
thing that we do have working for us
[10:11] currently is that we we brought some
really high renewals the last few years.
[10:17] And it's not has done. It's just been
industrywide with property. I think I'm
[10:22] sure you've seen it in your homeowners.
Um it's nothing to see a 20 to 25%
[10:27] increase. Um the reason for that was,
you know, this is I'm I'm ding it way
[10:33] down for me. Um there's about five
reinsurers that insure the insurance
[10:38] companies and all of them got together
and said, "We're not making any money,
[10:41] so we're going to ratchet it up, but
we've got to make more money and you've
[10:44] got to take more risk." So that really
has filtered everybody whether they've
[10:49] had losses or not. Um,
all that to be said, it is starting to
[10:54] soften now. I would bet in your home
renewals, you won't see the increases
[10:58] that you have seen in the past few
years. Um, back to kind of that normal
[11:04] state. They were just they were out
around for a little while think
[11:17] » okay well we will diligently be getting
these back to you as quick as we can and
[11:20] working with department heads if you
guys have questions in the meantime's
[11:25] got all my information free to contact
me too
[11:28] » Mr. Becker personally I would like to
see when you bring back quotes for the
[11:33] housing also go ahead and just bring
back a quote for the cyber policies.
[11:37] » Sure.
>> Just so that we can start looking at
[11:40] those earlier
[11:43] » we've been trying to coordinate with our
IT company on on that as well. So I'll
[11:47] follow up. So yeah, I'll make sure we
get that.
[11:50] » Thank you.
>> Thank you guys. Have a great night. You
[11:52] » too.
[11:56] Let's have an update and presentation
from Stanic.
[12:00] » I'm gonna kind of move over. So I'm in
your way. just tell me how many
[12:04] » Yeah, a lot of this will be up on the
screen just for reference. And good
[12:08] evening and thank you everyone for
having us today uh to talk about the
[12:12] Harington area wide plan and the report
that we'll be issuing here pretty soon
[12:16] in a couple weeks. So the plan itself um
has been going on for about a year now,
[12:23] the entire planning process and we're
getting ready to issue that as a final
[12:28] report very soon. Um, so we're happy to
share this with you and to better inform
[12:33] you all about what to expect in that
plan so that you can share that better
[12:37] with constituents and help champion that
into the future as well. Um, so yeah, my
[12:42] name is Kate Paline. I am a landscape
architect and urban planner with Sant.
[12:47] We also have calling in today virtually
Caitlyn Woolard. She's with Sant as
[12:52] well. If you want to introduce yourself,
Caitlyn.
[12:55] » Sure. If you can hear me all right.
>> Yes. Um, I'm Caitlyn Mullard. Great. I'm
[13:01] Caitlyn Mullard. I'm a landscape
architect and planner with Santech and I
[13:04] work on our brownfield revitalization
team helping lots of communities just
[13:08] like Harrington uh work on site specific
and areawide plan uh redevelopment
[13:13] needs. Sorry I can't be there in person
but happy to be on the phone.
[13:20] Um and then from the city side, uh we've
worked really closely through this
[13:23] planning process with that with Lisa
from the rural champion role side of
[13:29] things. And um that's been a really good
relationship to keep um us on track
[13:34] through this whole process and make sure
that we understand uh everything from
[13:38] the point of view of the city as well.
Uh we've also um another major partner
[13:44] in this has been the Flint Hills
Regional Council. We have Jana um Jana
[13:49] Williams here today to represent the
Flint Hills region and they've been a
[13:53] major part of the project in that it
wouldn't exist without the Brownfields
[13:58] funding that we've been able to acquire
through the Flint Hills regional
[14:01] council. So Caitlyn if you want to
switch to the next slide
[14:06] or if you can. There we go. Uh so yeah
today we'll just keep it kind of a brief
[14:10] overview of what to expect in the report
but we'll talk about the project itself
[14:14] and how it came about. uh what we
studied which were existing conditions
[14:18] downtown. Uh did community engagement in
a market study and then we'll wrap up
[14:24] just by talking about what to expect in
the design vision and the area wide
[14:28] recommendations as well as uh funding
and implementation strategies that we're
[14:32] recommending.
So you can switch
[14:36] to the next slide. Um so if you can see
in the map up there that is the the
[14:42] planning area that we've selected for
this plan. So we really looking at um to
[14:47] the north boundary the Flint Hills
region or sorry the the future Flint
[14:54] Hills trail to the east we're looking at
as far as East Street uh to the south as
[14:59] far as Trap Street and to the west as
far as Lime Creek. So really just what
[15:04] you see in that dash white boundary uh
within the larger boundaries of the
[15:08] city. But we did study the full regional
context, but that's really the area
[15:13] where our recommendations lie within. Uh
the project started in 2024 uh with
[15:18] Flint Hills Regional Council being
awarded the EPA Brownfields Assessment
[15:22] Grant. Uh that grant program supports
community revitalization through funding
[15:27] environmental assessment, cleanup, and
redevelopment planning for not just
[15:31] individual sites, but also um larger
areas like what we're studying here. Um
[15:38] impacted communities. So, Harrington was
identified uh by the Flint Hills
[15:44] Regional Council as an area that could
be in need of revitalization and some um
[15:50] engagement with the public to hear what
they would like to see in the future.
[15:53] So, the plan goals are to uh host
engagement events, identify
[15:57] redevelopment sites, illustrate design
recommendations, and encourage and guide
[16:01] implementation. And like I said, we've
been working on this since December of
[16:05] 2024 and planning to issue uh this
coming month.
[16:12] Next slide.
Um and so just a quickly overview of
[16:17] what we saw in existing conditions when
we first walked the site to kick off the
[16:21] project. Next slide.
[16:26] Um what we saw in the within the study
area boundaries uh really taking a at
[16:32] Main Street and Broadway as the major
corridors both east, west, and north
[16:38] south through the heart of downtown. Uh
we noticed that the intersection of
[16:42] Maine and Broadway uh as well as the
intersection of Broadway and um
[16:51] Walnut, thank you. Those are two
intersections that are pretty prominent
[16:54] for pedestrians to cross right now. They
are marked for crosswalks, but
[16:59] potentially could be a little bit safer.
They're really wide right now. you've
[17:02] got to cross out a stop sign and just
want to make sure that there's more
[17:07] visibility there in the future. So, that
was something we noticed. Uh we also
[17:10] took note of the street lights that are
existing are kind of more vehicular
[17:14] scale. So, they're really really tall.
And in thinking about uh creating a
[17:19] downtown that is more pedestrian scale,
more comfortable for people who come
[17:23] here to visit, for people who walk
through downtown every day. Um bringing
[17:28] maybe some lower pedestrian scale
lighting might be thing to think about
[17:32] there as well as you know another thing
that helps with scale is tree canopy or
[17:37] vegetation. So those are things that
could really soften the spaces downtown
[17:42] and we saw some opportunities there to
to take another look at. If you advance
[17:48] to the next slide too um I've got some
pictures of Broadway Street that we
[17:53] took. Uh definitely noted that the
pocket park is a great resource for the
[17:58] community and that that's um are
evolving, but also that uh Broadway's
[18:04] got a lot of great murals and a lot of
great art uh that could also be expanded
[18:08] on. Um something that we noted as well
on Broadway is that the sidewalks are
[18:13] really wide. And while that's great as
there's a lot of room for pedestrian
[18:18] activity, it also gives an opportunity
for potentially um bringing more
[18:23] elements into the sidewalk, potentially
barriers between traffic and parking and
[18:28] people walking on the street in the form
of ers in the form of benches. So, these
[18:33] were things that we were starting to
think about as we walk downtown.
[18:37] Um, oh, and one other thing to mention
is in that middle slide, you can kind of
[18:41] see where Broadway intersects with the
future Flint Hills Regional Trail. And
[18:45] with that being the trail being a major
driver for this plan, um, that open
[18:51] space that's very close adjacent to the
trail uh at Broadway is a site that we
[18:56] looked at as well as having a lot of
potential. All right, next slide.
[19:03] So, as I mentioned, we did community
engagement as part of this project. Uh,
[19:07] if you advance to the next slide,
Caitlyn. Um, I've got some just stats on
[19:12] how that went and what we did. Uh, we
started with a spring visioning
[19:15] workshop. So that was just to really
bring the project maps um sites of
[19:21] downtown, enlargements of zoning, that
sort of thing to the community and
[19:26] invited the public to share their
thoughts on opportunities and challenges
[19:31] as well as help us identify priority
areas that they would like to um maybe
[19:37] see improvements, see future uh changes
to in downtown. U we listened to what
[19:43] people liked, what they would like to
see more of, that sort of thing. And we
[19:49] had 30 participants at that community
workshop and also offered everything
[19:54] that was offered in person as an online
survey. So we had 85 responses for that
[19:59] which was a great turnout and we got a
wealth of information from from all of
[20:04] that engagement there. Uh we also had a
steering committee meetings. So our
[20:09] steering committee was made up of six
individuals that were had a sample from
[20:13] the community. We had business owners
and other community leaders uh joining
[20:18] us at three key meetings throughout the
process. So they were also reviewing our
[20:23] plans and our uh studies along the way
and giving feedback.
[20:28] And then secondly we had a summer design
workshop. So after we took everything
[20:32] that we gathered from the visioning, we
sat down as designers, looked at the
[20:36] area and uh the ideas that the community
brought forward and saw what could fit
[20:41] um within the context of downtown. We
brought some sketches to the community
[20:46] at that design workshop and we also
brought those same sketches to uh two
[20:51] different student groups uh at the local
school. We talked to middle schoolers
[20:55] and high schoolers both and wanted to
hear from them what they thought of the
[20:59] proposed designs from a student point of
view. Are these things that they would
[21:04] utilize? What's kind of missing? And
also, you know, what would encourage
[21:08] them to, you know, feel like they wanted
to stay in Harrington in the future?
[21:13] Like what things do they want to see in
in the future that they see in other
[21:18] cities that they enjoy visiting?
Um, and then lastly, as part of
[21:22] engagement, we did talk to six different
stakeholders and do one-on-one
[21:26] interviews as well. Next slide.
[21:31] Uh, so we got a lot of takeaways from
the engagement that we did. Uh, we heard
[21:36] a lot about strong community pride. We
heard that the existing businesses
[21:40] downtown are very valued, uh, with a lot
of potential for expansion and
[21:44] diversifying those offerings. Um but
strategically we heard from the public
[21:50] that maintenance is a a major thing that
they don't want to let slide in the um
[21:56] proposal anything new. They were very um
adamant on existing buildings and
[22:00] existing parks uh needing to be
maintained as they are or to be uh
[22:06] brought up to uh facade improvements
that sort of thing for buildings. Um
[22:11] that was something that we heard. There
was also talk of underutilized
[22:16] being an opportunity downtown and then
utilizing the Flint Hills Trail as we
[22:21] talked about being a catalyst for
recreational tourism in the future. Uh,
[22:26] next slide.
[22:30] And then one other thing that we did as
uh kind of within this visioning phase
[22:35] of the project was a market study. We
fantasy
[22:41] that uh we had join our team and they
looked at the project in the the region
[22:48] as a whole. Um they looked at they have
a wealth of data that they were
[22:53] analyzing for population analytics from
recent years employment analytics and
[22:59] they took all of that information and
kind of put it into their own market
[23:04] report of this specific downtown site
area. Um and that is actually included
[23:11] in the report as appendices. So that's a
whole another study that can be accessed
[23:15] as well that we'll share with the
public. Um and basically this study,
[23:20] Caitlyn, if you advance to the next
slide. Um it gave us some opportunities,
[23:26] constraints, um takeaways that they
found that could then be uh layered into
[23:32] our design thoughts. So uh they talked a
lot about the same things we were
[23:38] hearing from the public, but this was
all backed up with the statistics that
[23:41] they were studying. So the stabil
stabilized population base was something
[23:46] that they mentioned here in Harrington
as compared to other neighboring towns
[23:50] and cities. Uh incomes rising
comparatively to other towns and cities.
[23:56] Uh and talked about the critical mass of
underutilized buildings. Key challenges
[24:01] on the flip side of that uh talked about
the vacancies downtown. Obviously
[24:05] there's an opportunity in that as well.
Um and they also mentioned the
[24:10] difficulty of attracting retail when
there's a location like downtown is
[24:15] where you're off major highways. Uh it's
not something that's visible from major
[24:20] roads. And so kind of started to
recommend that looking at boutique
[24:26] companies like um or
chain not chain retail but um more
[24:32] unique offerings for for restaurant for
retail that sort of thing. Something
[24:36] that's more of a destination.
Next slide please.
[24:42] And um I won't get too deep into this.
This is uh the recommendations of the
[24:48] market study are a little more
elaborated on in the actual report, but
[24:52] they broke down their recommendations
into residential focus, retail
[24:56] restaurant focused, and downtown
development focused. And the
[24:59] residential, especially in this area,
was more um focused on modernization of
[25:04] existing units. There's not a lot of
residential properties in the study area
[25:09] that are vacant right now. So, with the
exception of a few places that we looked
[25:14] at or a few sites that we looked at,
really recommended modernization and um
[25:19] helping keep up with market resiliency
through that and cutting down on
[25:23] construction costs.
And then as far as downtown development,
[25:28] really encouraging to work with property
owners to rehabilitate downtown
[25:31] buildings. Um talking about bringing
benefits of maintaining the historic
[25:38] character downtown, keeping rents
affordable and increasing the supply and
[25:43] uh the space options for new businesses.
Next slide, please.
[25:51] All right, so that brings us to the
recommendations for the plan. This is
[25:55] more of a illustrative um a lot of
illustrative maps and studies that we
[26:00] did throughout the design process and in
the re recommendation phase that all
[26:05] kind of illustrate um in a in a
three-dimensional at sometimes and
[26:10] sometimes a plan view uh visions of what
the future could be for downtown
[26:16] Harrington and just different
recommendations within that. So if we go
[26:20] to the next slide um a few of maps that
you'll see in the report are uh looking
[26:26] at the area in plan view kind of from
different frameworks. So this first
[26:30] framework is looking just at open space
and looking at green space that's
[26:34] existing and thinking about what should
be preserved, what we recommend be taken
[26:39] a second look at as potential um
redevelopment sites and any sites that
[26:44] might be underutilized right now. So,
um, the big takeaway from this map is
[26:50] you can kind of see it there, the orange
dash line along Main Street is an area
[26:55] that we're looking at in this plan as
being a really good opportunity to loop
[27:01] um, any future Flint Hills uh,
recreational trail into downtown
[27:07] physically with like an on street bike
lane is what we were starting to look
[27:11] at. thinking that this would be a great
way to actually pull users of the trail
[27:15] into downtown. Have a place that's
designated that that bikes can be parked
[27:21] and people can dismount and walk and
visit downtown. Uh that could be done
[27:25] through some signage to indicate like at
either end of the trail what to expect,
[27:31] but we've got some illustrations to show
what that might look like later on. If
[27:35] the next slide, please.
[27:42] All right. This and this um framework
map looks at the lens of mobility. So
[27:47] we're looking at the area just from like
a vehicular circulation, pedestrian
[27:52] circulation point of view. Um, so as you
dig into this plan, you can look at
[27:57] these a little closer, but the main
takeaways from the mobility side of
[28:01] things were um that Broadway and Main
Street are the main corridors as we've
[28:06] mentioned. But each of those circles
that you see are major intersections
[28:10] that we flagged as having a lot of
potential for um being made safer for
[28:15] pedestrians, especially like we said,
Maine and Broadway and Walnut and
[28:20] Broadway.
And then we also showed some future
[28:23] connections and layered those into this
plan. Um such as the pink arrow to the
[28:29] north connecting to um the Harrington
school system in the future. Next slide,
[28:34] please.
[28:38] And then one um point of mobility that
we got a little more deep into on terms
[28:44] of recommendations is recreational
tourism recommendations. We think these
[28:48] are um going to be good ways to to uh
identify some like smaller, easily
[28:56] achievable goals uh to start looping
recreational tourism into the way that
[29:02] um decisions are made into new grant
opportunities. So, some of these ideas
[29:06] include bike friendly amenities. Uh
looking for grants that might uh offer
[29:12] ways to uh do ebike charging stations or
bike infrastructure. Thinking about ways
[29:17] that businesses could maybe start to
offer incentives to bikers. maybe bring
[29:21] your helmet in and you get a discount.
Um, and then also ways that promotion
[29:26] and wayfinding could be done. Um, if not
through more formal signs, like in the
[29:31] meantime, maybe there's some more
grassroot efforts that could include
[29:34] mural or street painting to to loop uh
those who are using the Flint Hills
[29:40] Regional Trail into Harrington and just
connect the two more strongly.
[29:46] Next slide, please.
[29:51] And then this last framework map, um
it's kind of like a heat map actually.
[29:55] So this looks at um within our uh study
area
[30:00] sites that have the most potential for
revitalization. So the dark red are
[30:04] really those uh key sites that we've
identified as having the most potential
[30:09] for brownfields funding, having the most
potential for um maybe it's a a vacant
[30:15] site or a site that has um no
development on it currently and has a
[30:20] lot of potential to be worked into this
plan and into projects in the future.
[30:25] And you can kind of see as far as the
colors go as they get lighter, it's kind
[30:29] of more of a lighter touch that we're
proposing. But um definitely along that
[30:34] main street and Broadway corridors,
there's a um a lot of sites we
[30:38] identified that maybe the site itself
doesn't change, especially those
[30:41] residential sites, but flagging those as
opportunities for streetscape
[30:45] improvements.
looping and walkability, making sure
[30:49] sidewalks are all accessible and
connected in those areas.
[30:54] Next slide, please.
[30:59] And the next three slides, these are
what we shared at the uh design workshop
[31:04] event in the summer. So, that was the
open house that we did to share our
[31:08] design ideas. Um, something to keep in
mind with this is any properties that
[31:13] you see that may not be cityowned right
now, they may have some proposed
[31:18] enhancements on them or ideas for the
future. Uh just keep in mind that this
[31:22] plan is meant to be for recommendations
for the future. And big picture ideas,
[31:27] big vision goals, and the goal would be
to have those discussions later on. Um,
[31:33] if there's a specific property that the
city thinks is a great idea to to do
[31:37] some improvements on or likes something
that's recommended here, uh, we're not
[31:42] proposing that this be implemented as is
shown. Um, it's big picture ideas and
[31:48] thinking about where it makes the most
sense for open space and for parking and
[31:54] that sort of thing. Um, one thing to
note from these plans is we are looking
[31:59] at uh, ideas for how we can get sh and
vegetation onto Broadway and Main
[32:05] Street. So, what you're seeing here is
Broadway, but turn to the side, but
[32:09] north is to the left. Uh,
one idea that we had is keeping the
[32:15] street uh striping as it is, but maybe
working into a few of the parking
[32:19] spaces, some some uh tree cutouts or
even bumpouts around uh those two key
[32:25] intersections at uh Maine and Broadway
and Walnut and Broadway. So, those could
[32:31] be way to uh increase pedestrian safety,
but also take advantage of those gaps
[32:37] between the angled parking and the
crosswalk zone that could become dining
[32:41] space, could become spaces that the
public could use uh or could be planted.
[32:47] If you go to the next slide.
[32:53] Uh the next two slides are those same
sketch enlargements we shared with the
[32:58] um two engagement groups that we did uh
during the summer engagement. Uh this
[33:05] this slide as well as the next slide
will show just highle sketches of those
[33:10] in orange. see buildings that were
identified in that heat map that I
[33:13] mentioned as high priority redevelopment
sites. Um, and the pink, as you'll see
[33:19] in the report, if you get into this
closer, we're showing ideas for art
[33:24] locations, for signage, just different
types of wayfinding and that sort of
[33:28] thing. If you go to the next slide.
[33:34] And so this is the west end of Main
Street. Uh, we didn't again try to get
[33:39] too deep into to what uh sites might
specifically look like, but knowing that
[33:43] that site uh to all the way to the west
of Main Street where uh we're along Lime
[33:49] Creek and where the terminus of the
Flint Hills Trail might be that that's
[33:53] going to be a space for parking, a trail
head, and maybe a potential future
[33:57] connection of a recreational trail down
along uh Lime Creek to the south.
[34:03] Next slide.
[34:08] All right. Um so this It's a little hard
to see from here and definitely
[34:12] encourage everyone to like zoom in on
this once uh the report's issued, but
[34:16] this is those three images that I just
showed from plan view, but taken at a
[34:20] bird's eye view and really pulled out to
see the plan as a whole with all of the
[34:24] recommendations
layered into this plan. Um there's a key
[34:29] to kind of guide what those are and
there will be text in the report too to
[34:33] kind of explain what these are. But the
big picture is uh the big picture ideas
[34:38] are the bike loop and that connection
along Main Street, that painted
[34:43] dedicated bike lane. Um the orange sites
that we mentioned as high priority
[34:48] revitalization sites. And then some of
the connecting ideas for um pocket park
[34:54] areas for um some some park space that
connects to the Flint Hills Regional
[34:59] Trail, that sort of thing. Next slide,
please.
[35:04] And in addition to that, we've got two
um perspective renderings to really help
[35:08] you vision uh have a vision of what
downtown could look like if this
[35:13] transformation were to take place. Uh
and so this is a view of Maine and
[35:19] Broadway looking west with uh gathering
grounds to the right. Uh
[35:24] this is the view Yeah. looking west. So
you can see the the bike lane dedicated
[35:30] that. What's great about this plan is
that there wouldn't be a big need for
[35:34] any kind of major road infrastructure
changes. It could all be a restriping
[35:38] exercise basically of just lanes
narrowing a bit and uh the bike lane
[35:43] being brought in. The bumpouts would be
the most major recommendation in this
[35:47] view that you can kind of see those
where there's some people sitting and
[35:51] eating. There's already been some art
proposed in the sculpture in the bottom
[35:55] um left corner being what's proposed
there right now. So uh there's some
[36:00] great ideas that are already uh coming
to fruition and you can start to see
[36:04] that here in this illustration. Also
talking about those wide sidewalks that
[36:10] I mentioned earlier that we saw like
there's a lot of room for some planters,
[36:14] some benches, things that could be
really easy to achieve and could involve
[36:19] the community. um but also provide some
separation between cars and people on
[36:26] the sidewalk. Next slide, please.
[36:32] And this is our second rendering that we
did to look at Broadway and Walnut
[36:36] looking north. So that's Broadway
station kind of in the center of the
[36:40] image. Uh, another thing that you'll see
in both of these are some ideas for
[36:45] bringing that lighting down to
pedestrian scale and also thinking about
[36:49] some banners that could associate with
directional signage. It could be
[36:54] something that's changed out seasonally.
Uh, that's just another element that
[36:58] brings things down to people scale,
pedestrian scale. And then the other
[37:02] thing to note from this image is that uh
currently undeveloped property just
[37:07] across the street from Broadway Station.
Again, noting that that's not a
[37:12] city-owned property right now, but just
a big picture idea of what that could be
[37:16] if it were kept an open space and uh
maybe there's a shade structure over
[37:20] that. Maybe it's a space that gets a lot
of visibility from people passing
[37:24] through. The pocket park is a great
space right now for gathering, but this
[37:28] could be a great site that like if
there's streets shut down, a big event,
[37:32] if there's a outdoor movie night,
there's a lot of opportunities for a
[37:36] space that size.
Next slide, please.
[37:43] All right. And then lastly, in the plan,
you'll see I'm not going to get into
[37:47] this deeply, but there's a ton of
implementation strategies that we've
[37:51] identified as action items. Um, and
listed in these tables like these
[37:56] screenshots that you see. So these range
from very small easily achievable ideas
[38:01] to very big um would take a lot of uh
cooperation and a lot of people working
[38:08] together to get done but things that
were illustrated in the plan. Here's
[38:13] some bite-sized ways to get those done.
And they're divided into four different
[38:17] categories of mobility, placemaking,
parks, and land and economic
[38:21] development. And then each of those
action items comes with kind of what the
[38:27] uh timeline for that, who might be
parties that are involved, funding
[38:32] opportunities that are out there, and
what kind of categories of funding it
[38:35] might fall under. And then also the
level of investment that would be
[38:40] probably expected.
And next slide, please.
[38:46] And those funding um icons that are in
the implementation
[38:50] table relate directly to a funding
strategies section of the report which
[38:56] is the final section and that is uh our
team has come together and identified
[39:02] national and local grants that there
would be a lot of potential to uh get
[39:08] and go after as a city or other
organizations might want to go after as
[39:13] well. So it's calling those out knowing
what they could relate to back in the
[39:17] implementation plan and kind of giving
um teams that might want to go after
[39:22] these some steps that they would need to
plan to take if they were to do that.
[39:28] And I think with that that is everything
that's included in the report and very
[39:32] excited to share that with you all in
the coming weeks. Caitlyn, if you go to
[39:37] the last slide. Yeah, we'll take any
questions if you have any. I know that
[39:41] was a lot.
[39:47] Well, I appreciate you guys putting all
that together and I look forward to
[39:50] actually being able to to look into a
lot more.
[39:55] I'm excited to see what kind of funding
opportunities are actually identified
[39:58] with those grants because it's we don't
have a lot of discretionary funding in
[40:03] our budget, but if we can figure out a
way to get those grants, those are
[40:10] greatly appreciated.
And I hope if we put some trees on the
[40:15] sidewalks that we do better than we did
last time because we had trees that
[40:19] uprooted all the sidewalk, you know.
>> Yes, we were aware of that for sure. And
[40:24] that's why looking at those off the
sidewalk maybe more in the streetscape
[40:27] and also identifying the right tree.
[40:33] » I think it's a great idea.
>> Any other questions?
[41:02] I greatly appreciate that.
>> Yes, we've needed that for a long time.
[41:09] » Look forward to seeing the written
report.
[41:11] » Yes. Thank you.
>> Uh this time, let's take a five minute
[41:16] recess.
[44:20] Call the meeting back to order.
Oh, Miss Slman, you want to provide us
[44:27] your status report for the world
champion program?
[44:37] » Thank you.
[44:56] Good evening.
[45:00] So, as you know, the world champion, I'm
back. It's been a while. Um, I kind of
[45:05] want to fill you in on what I've been up
to. Um, I'll start out with my grant.
[45:11] Um, it was awarded last October 24th,
not last October, previous October. The
[45:18] part-time position was a $20,800 salary
position. Um, the city put in 4,000
[45:26] above that as a match along with Dickson
County as five brought in 5,000 and
[45:32] Visit Harrington brought in 3,000
roughly covering my office space, uh,
[45:37] laptop, computer, office the general
things that this kind of job needs.
[45:44] Um that along with that I was to apply
for a an implementation grant in June
[45:52] and that brought in an extra $25,000 for
my project. We'll get into that later,
[45:57] but that's our downtown character
project. Um of that 25,000 19 is focused
[46:04] on that uh the 6,000 remaining funed my
last quarter. so that I could continue
[46:11] working for the last of the year.
So, getting into that downtown character
[46:16] project. Um, it is a streetcaping
project focused on North Broadway. The
[46:21] first block will be right out front here
all the way down to Broadway station.
[46:26] Um, working on beautifification kind of
like what we were just talking about.
[46:31] I'm actually looking into the same types
of things, signage, benches, planters,
[46:36] bike racks, those kind of things.
That's going to be a big part of it. Uh
[46:42] the other wonderful thing we got added
to that is a street filter which you got
[46:46] to see an image of which side didn't get
a close enough. Um that is funded by a
[46:53] $10,000 grant from our community
foundation of Dickson County that was
[46:58] reported in August.
The artist is Jim Bryant and he will be
[47:04] working on that I think starting in
April and through August is the plan
[47:11] that completed.
>> Where is that going to be?
[47:14] So by in my mind right now I have it
envisioned on the corner here either on
[47:21] this side or that side of the street by
and I kind of envision a bump out but
[47:27] it's probably going to be a painted bump
out not necessarily a fully cemented one
[47:33] for that right now but I will be working
on that.
[47:37] Um the next thing I worked on let's see
is the commerce connections. So that
[47:43] came about through visits with the
businesses and
[47:47] a lot of them were curious who's our
city manager. We want to see him. We
[47:51] want to talk to him. So we put that
together. And that and I sit down each
[47:56] month and meet with the business owners,
talk about whatever their needs are. If
[48:00] there's ideas that they have for us to
look into, then that's what we do. And
[48:06] we're working with uh Dickson County EDC
as a potential partner to bring in a
[48:12] program, a storefront beautifification
program for some of our businesses. And
[48:16] I just talked with her today again,
Natalie, um about bringing in some
[48:20] training for our business owners,
whether it be, you know, tax things or
[48:27] employee training things that they may
need. So, we're looking into what other
[48:32] programs you can bring for them.
Um the one of the programs that I came
[48:38] across through some of my networking was
the um entrepreneurial conference which
[48:42] was connecting entrepreneurial
communities. Uh that was uh
[48:50] last June. It was a conference in
Kingman that I took three
[48:56] four of our residents too that are
interested in becoming business owners.
[49:00] Um that was funded through 2000 or
from Dickson County EDC and $1,000 from
[49:06] our city to match and that was
scholarship for the conference and hotel
[49:11] stay. That was pretty beneficial. There
was a lot of learning crammed in two
[49:16] days.
Good time. The other potential thing
[49:20] we're looking into is creating maker
space with some of our downtown business
[49:24] revitalization. There's some business,
some buildings that we are looking into
[49:29] to kind of keep growing on that
entrepreneurial spirit to give them a
[49:33] space to start out in that's not a
full-fledged building with all the
[49:37] overhead, start out small, if it works
and grows, then be able to move into a
[49:42] bigger building. That's something I
think would be beneficial for us. Um,
[49:46] another thing that I worked on in June,
June was a very busy month for me, the
[49:52] science grant, I applied for three
businesses downtown, but because it was
[49:57] at the end of their funding
cycle, I guess the end of the fiscal
[50:02] year, we were only awarded for one, and
that was gathering grounds, they were
[50:06] awarded two signs, $5,175.
And on the back, I have pictures of
[50:11] their beautiful signage on their facade
and their plank sign. Didn't quite turn
[50:16] out the way they planned it, but it's
still beautiful and it looks good.
[50:22] And currently the next round of signs is
open as of January 1st and it closes
[50:27] February 28th. I am looking to apply for
the hometown dental office, the wild
[50:33] flowers and Broadway station once more.
We'll see if we can get some fun going
[50:38] for that.
[50:42] Another thing I'm working on with uh
Wendy Jones is a project that we took on
[50:49] for the community, just a way to get out
word about events, uh church services,
[50:56] you know, just things going on in
general that happen month to month. Um
[50:59] the community really really spoke loud
about the tabletop calendars. I did not
[51:03] bring one with me, but I'm sure you guys
have seen them around. That is something
[51:07] that we decided to bring back from the
dead and it has been widely appreciated.
[51:12] So, if you're out and about,
I'm sure you'll find something you want
[51:17] to do.
And last but not least, I'm kind of a
[51:23] conduit, if you will, or connector for
our fun committee, our visit Harrington.
[51:29] I'm the secretary this round.
Don't know why. I guess I like to take
[51:34] notes. [laughter]
Um, I also am a member of the Harrington
[51:38] Creatives Guild, which is our new
group that started in August, I believe.
[51:44] And I've been, you know, members of
churches. I I get around with all of our
[51:50] organizations, Revitalized Arington
and many, many others. Yeah. On the back
[51:57] side, if you want to look, there's a
picture of all 14 of us lovely gals,
[52:02] rule champions that started out October
2024. There's some images of some of the
[52:08] ideas I have for our downtown character
project. There's also an image for our
[52:13] street sculpture that is I don't know if
you can read it very well, but that's
[52:17] going to be about 7 feet tall. Not very
wide or deep per se, but about three
[52:22] feet wide.
And then of course a flyer for our
[52:27] commerce connection, which
got another one coming up here.
[52:34] Are there any questions?
>> Is is this a program that
[52:40] can continue on from the Department of
Commerce or
[52:44] » the only the first year was funded for
the Department of Commerce and of course
[52:50] the program is meant for your world
champion to find a project and my
[52:55] project was more of a program I guess
you could say which is not uncommon as
[53:01] in in my memory and I
[53:05] I think it's county.
[53:11] Oh, Graham County. They're the only
other
[53:15] rule champion that started as a program
and his program was a little bit more in
[53:20] depth than mine, I think. But I started
small and I'm just I just keep myself
[53:25] busy. That's not hard. There's a lot to
do.
[53:33] I thank you for all of your hard work.
Uh it shows I went to the one uh
[53:39] commerce connection. Yes.
>> And uh I was disappointed of the shell
[53:44] people showing up but uh I think it's a
great idea. I you know we we need
[53:51] someone coming with Thatcher and giving
him ideas and helping him.
[53:57] » Sure. Uh, and you know, you still have
people say that business owners, we've
[54:03] never seen Thatcher, but they never go
to the business connections either. When
[54:07] they have an opportunity to do it, they
want him to come to the helm, you know,
[54:12] but u
I think you've done a great job
[54:16] » and I will say, you know, we we did go
out and vis visit quite a few businesses
[54:20] personally before we kind of were
setting up the commerce connections and
[54:23] going to get back to that in the future.
Um, you know, I think has done a really
[54:28] really wonderful job in the last year,
year and a half on developing this
[54:33] program and making this position
something beyond I think even what it
[54:37] was you know set out to be by commerce.
So I I think she's gone above and beyond
[54:42] there and certainly excited to see uh
the project rounded out with the
[54:46] community community character project.
That's important. But I I just say, you
[54:51] know, when I arrived here, our chamber
had been shortly disbanded shortly
[54:56] before that. And that's not all that
uncommon in small towns. Uh it's getting
[55:01] tougher and tougher to operate a chamber
without basically the city funding it.
[55:06] And then, you know, I think a lot of our
business owners kind of had a sour taste
[55:10] from what happened with the with the
prior chamber. So just re-engaging those
[55:15] business owners has been, I think,
really helpful. And a lot of the owners
[55:20] I would say maybe didn't even know each
other. So hopefully we can continue to
[55:24] build on this program and uh as we round
out the project I think you know we'll
[55:29] have to talk about during budget season
what where do we see this going you know
[55:34] um I like to think that this program has
kind of filled the void of what our
[55:39] chamber left behind at you know what I
would say is a fraction of the of the
[55:44] cost uh for the city but as well as
someone that's able just with those
[55:49] smaller grants that I'm not able to keep
an eye on uh at all times. So, I think
[55:55] it's been a really good program and I
thank Lisa for her hard work and you
[55:59] know, I just hope that we can continue
to build on this in 2027 and beyond. So,
[56:06] you know, I I was the director of the
chamber years ago. I know how hard it is
[56:11] to get people to come and volunteer and
help you do things and uh it's sometimes
[56:18] like pulling teeth, you know, but you
know, with like Ronda and them with
[56:23] their revitalization committees and
everything going out. I'm glad that
[56:27] we're connecting everything together
there and
[56:31] like the army slowly, we're a community
of one, [laughter] one big family.
[56:39] And I wrote,
[56:59] » right?
[57:05] and
[57:21] built
[57:27] » [laughter]
[57:40] » and all the business.
[57:56] Right.
[58:14] So,
[58:32] season.
[58:49] Is that
[58:55] for us.
[59:15] » Well, I noticed in your memo there was a
question. Uh oh. Yeah. Yeah, there was.
[59:22] » That question is does the city
commission want the real champion to
[59:26] update them on the program benchmarks
obtained
[59:29] at budget season?
Personally,
[59:34] I understand that your program no longer
is funded.
[59:38] However, I would hope that you would
continue to keep the city staff to task
[59:44] and maybe participate more in those
discussions come by the season.
[59:52] questions are coming. Did a great job.
>> I would like to see it continue.
[1:00:01] » Maybe there's a way we could fund that.
Maybe uh some other funding. We do have
[1:00:05] » taken out of commissioner salary.
>> Wait a second.
[1:00:10] [laughter]
[1:00:15] » Give that a second. See if
>> Hey, Brad. on speaker here.
[1:00:25] » Brad on the phone here.
Brad, are you are you doing all right?
[1:00:30] » Yeah. Yeah, I'm feeling a lot better
these days. So,
[1:00:33] » I think we're getting there.
>> That is good to hear. Um, so this first
[1:00:38] uh the first item on the agenda is the
update for the Idea Tech franchise
[1:00:43] agreement,
>> right? Were you able to go back through
[1:00:46] the the edits that they were looking for
and see if there was anything that was a
[1:00:52] concern or
>> Yeah, based upon the the most recent
[1:00:56] one, at least I assume that's what I've
got and I can double check that. But u I
[1:01:01] had made some suggested changes a
significant number of those all of which
[1:01:07] uh council had addressed I think um and
ultimately put together an agreement
[1:01:12] that I think had redlined uh most of
those changes. So so the short form
[1:01:17] answer is yes. I think it uh it was
including unless they were not looking
[1:01:22] at the right version uh all the
suggested changes I had as well.
[1:01:26] » Okay. I I noticed that this is a
non-exclusive franchise. Is that
[1:01:30] correct?
>> Yes.
[1:01:32] » So, can you kind of explain for us what
the difference would be if it was an
[1:01:36] exclusive versus the non-exclusive?
>> If you grant an exclusive franchise in
[1:01:41] certain circumstances, particularly
within the municipality, uh what you're
[1:01:44] doing is saying that you are the only
game in town, so to speak. if um if we
[1:01:50] and sometimes that's by default you know
you'll have certain types of providers
[1:01:55] like an Evergy in the state of Kansas or
in certain parts of the state at Kansas
[1:01:59] Gas uh or um oh even a trash service and
there's competing ones around here for
[1:02:05] example Newton has their own uh but then
there's a company called Nisley out of
[1:02:10] Hutchinson that does a lot of smaller
cities but also competes in the market
[1:02:15] um and even in those instances where the
municipality has its own unless they in
[1:02:20] some way shape or form and it's
difficult to do uh grant an exclusive
[1:02:24] franchise
um to particularly with an independent
[1:02:28] provider um that allows it's it's the
others are free to involve themselves.
[1:02:35] So, you know, you can have a Vive, you
can have different other entities who
[1:02:40] provide similar or same services who can
also come into town and if they they
[1:02:44] provide the uh uh the necessary
infrastructure or piggyback on someone
[1:02:50] else's and you pay wheeling fees, um
they can all compete within the uh the
[1:02:57] uh jurisdictional limits of the city. Uh
the only way that that doesn't occur as
[1:03:02] I said is if you do an actual exclusive
and those quite frankly anymore are
[1:03:08] very much exceptions to the rule. There
has to be some tremendous advantage
[1:03:12] that's presented uh to allow one
particular competitor in a marketplace
[1:03:19] um to uh to serve exclusively in terms
of providing services within the
[1:03:24] community. where I've had it happen over
the years, for example, is uh if they
[1:03:28] did all of the infrastructure extension
and have this massive expenditure and
[1:03:33] they were the only one initially who was
willing to provide to like a western
[1:03:37] Kansas town uh or some of these really
small cities that are not along a a
[1:03:43] major trunk line uh for cable or for
internet or whatever it may be. Um but
[1:03:50] they were willing to come in um advance
all the infrastructure costs, put it in
[1:03:56] place so that there would be local
service. Um sometimes an exclusive was
[1:04:00] granted for a period of years so they
could at least reclaim their overall
[1:04:05] initial investment at least some portion
of it. Um without necessarily having to
[1:04:10] worry about okay now we provided all
this and we are compelled usually by
[1:04:13] state statute to allow others to use it
for a fee. Um but then we lose customers
[1:04:19] to these other services and they don't
have the startup expense that we had. So
[1:04:23] even their cost structure is uh is more
advantageous to the consumer. Uh that's
[1:04:29] difficult. So in order to induce uh in
some cases you'll use an exclusive for
[1:04:34] that reason. So probably getting into a
lot more than you were really looking
[1:04:37] for. But uh the short form answer is
non-exclusive means that competitors
[1:04:42] have the freedom to come in to the
jurisdiction and offer their similar or
[1:04:47] same service. Exclusive it would be a
situation where only one and the one you
[1:04:51] grant it to has the ability to provide
that particular service to the
[1:04:55] community.
>> Thank you.
[1:05:01] Where does and Brad you may this may not
be a question directly for you but where
[1:05:07] does the franchise fees go in our budget
[1:05:13] so it's not like you're marked for
any specific thing like that?
[1:05:22] Yeah, I think I can remember when I was
on the commission before we had some
[1:05:26] exclusive like I think years ago AT&T
used to have an exclusive in Harrington
[1:05:31] when we couldn't get no one else. Uh but
that's since changed a lot with all
[1:05:36] these other companies coming in. I think
the state statute says something along
[1:05:40] the lines. It's, you know, to be used
can be used for rightaway acquisition,
[1:05:46] you know, maybe funding some of the city
operations it takes to keep up with some
[1:05:51] of the infrastructure is mainly where
it's used for. So, they have to go out
[1:05:56] and locate lines and stuff.
>> Sure.
[1:05:58] » Yeah.
[1:06:02] Um, all that aside, Brad, is there any
reason why the commission shouldn't
[1:06:07] shouldn't consider this agreement?
>> Not not that I'm aware of. I think you
[1:06:11] can always do it and I oftentimes will
advocate for that just to compare notes
[1:06:15] like with that as well since I've been
kind of out of pocket for what amounts
[1:06:20] to almost two months. Uh, you know, I
don't always like to rely totally on my
[1:06:24] memory. So, you know, subject to
confirmation by staff that all of the
[1:06:28] requested changes were made. Um, and I'm
pretty certain they were because before
[1:06:33] that all was pretty much done before I
even um was absent. And so, um, I don't
[1:06:40] and I recall going back through it
multiple times, um, and making notes on
[1:06:44] various types of potential changes and
they've been always been pretty good in
[1:06:48] my experience with other communities and
trying to meet the expectations of each
[1:06:53] of the jurisdictions in which they do
business. Um, so I'm I'm not inherently
[1:07:00] um overly concerned anyway. And they
have generally been again in my
[1:07:04] experience with these different
communities pretty good partner uh in
[1:07:09] terms of I I'm not going to necessarily
sit here and do a bandwagon advocacy for
[1:07:14] Idea Tech, but of some of the ones we've
experienced over the years um who
[1:07:20] underdel um haven't necessarily found
that to be the case with them. uh they
[1:07:26] uh they tend to do what they'll tell you
they're going to do and they also tend
[1:07:29] to be a good neighbor terms of being
participatory many times in the
[1:07:33] community. So, as an aside, um they uh
they have not caused any of the
[1:07:39] communities that I've worked with to
really regret having them there. uh the
[1:07:43] agreement itself by the time you know
I'd noted some of those changes they
[1:07:47] were small things few instances where I
I wanted some more assurance from them
[1:07:52] as to what they were going to do how
they would restore property in the event
[1:07:55] of you know infrastructure extension
that would require them to uh uh disrupt
[1:08:03] um different things whether it's a you
know roadway ditch u you know going
[1:08:09] through or crossing even if it is a
directional boring under a street. Um
[1:08:16] you know, any of that sort of thing. Um
kind of made some some noted changes to
[1:08:22] that and I believe those were all
included in the last u uh revisions to
[1:08:28] the agreement. So, but I wouldn't mind,
you know, if even if you I don't see a
[1:08:33] problem with taking action on it if you
leave that because I then I, you know,
[1:08:37] uh, one final time, you know, I can I'm
happily willing to go back through and
[1:08:42] just make sure there wasn't anything
missed, but I I don't know of anything
[1:08:46] at this point and I know it was a pretty
thorough review when I last did it.
[1:08:51] » Anybody else have questions for
a motion? I make a motion that we
[1:08:57] approve the idea tech franchise
agreement with pending staff's reook
[1:09:02] with the next uh ordinance number
>> and authorize the mayor to sign
[1:09:11] » a second a motion and a second. Is there
discussion?
[1:09:17] Miss Lens
[1:09:21] » I
[1:09:26] If staff can review that, just let me
know and I can come back in
[1:09:30] and sign it.
>> Um Brad, before we open up this public
[1:09:35] hearing, I I do have a quick question.
Do I have to keep the public hearing
[1:09:39] open while we consider the actions in it
or do we open it? No.
[1:09:43] » No. the public hearing basically based
upon how the notice is done in that
[1:09:48] instance, you're allowing public input
before you take formal action because it
[1:09:52] is city property in essence in these
instances where we're vacating and we're
[1:09:56] doing so um on a permanent basis. We do
always statutoily reserve the right for
[1:10:04] easement use, you know, if we had some
line that needed to go back in and that
[1:10:07] was I don't know ' 80s7s when that was
last amended. And the reason for that is
[1:10:12] you just never know what your needs are
going to be in the future and land is in
[1:10:15] essence forever. Um we have a pretty
good idea in most cases when we vacate
[1:10:20] that wow there's just not any likelihood
or even a remote possibility that we're
[1:10:24] going to uh grow that direction anymore
need that kind of infrastructure
[1:10:29] extension through that area. We have
another good alternative that we now
[1:10:32] have acquired and use. It can be any
number of things, but you know, um, at
[1:10:37] some point you look at it and city's
obligations with regard to maintenance,
[1:10:41] that sort of thing are, uh, are really
just outweigh the the advantage of
[1:10:45] owning it is outweighed by all of that
cost or or time spent. Um, and and other
[1:10:51] instances where you've got private
development uh, that really can use it
[1:10:56] far more effectively to achieve a
greater good for the community than what
[1:11:01] we have now. So, uh, the hearing is to,
you know, always give the opportunity
[1:11:06] for the public to come in and say,
"Wait, have you considered or I object,
[1:11:09] I think that there's always the
possibility or in in rare instances
[1:11:13] where someone feels like they're
directly impacted because it's the
[1:11:16] shortest distance to their property um,
for purposes of u whatever it might be,
[1:11:22] you know, like we've just been talking
about like fiber optic, which may not
[1:11:25] yet be in installed, but that would be a
great place to put it, they think." Um
[1:11:30] and then you consider all of that.
That's the whole goal is before you um
[1:11:35] jettison or vacate a a property right in
that regard uh in particularly with with
[1:11:42] surface rights ingress egress that kind
of thing. Um to make sure that the
[1:11:46] public has had the opportunity as
taxpayers to come in and voice their
[1:11:50] opinion if for any reason there's an
objection. Uh and again many of those
[1:11:54] objections are that I the example I just
gave on the fiber optic. We hold um in
[1:11:59] the reservation and the the final uh
vacation order um the ability uh because
[1:12:04] it's statutoily required for us to do so
uh to be able to enter on those premises
[1:12:10] for that purpose. Um but everything else
in terms of like get rid of an alley and
[1:12:16] um and you know the surface rights, the
the public right of way or the ability
[1:12:20] for the city to to um freely go across
it um and it's not private property per
[1:12:26] se, uh goes away with a vacation. Uh,
and if you don't specify, you know, if
[1:12:32] we don't sell it, um, and do something
in that fashion, this is the most common
[1:12:37] way we get rid of property we no longer
believe we will ever have need of,
[1:12:41] practically speaking. And then the law
sets in and if it's bounded on both
[1:12:48] sides um by private property, one half
goes to one side, one half goes to the
[1:12:54] other. We do not necessarily have to go
ahead and deed those over. But in this
[1:13:00] instance, they've sent over a quit claim
deed having acquired all the contiguous
[1:13:04] properties so that it will go to one
owner who has has a need and a purpose
[1:13:08] for it. Um the quit claim deed, there's
nothing wrong with doing that as well.
[1:13:12] It's just a, you know, it's a an an
extra step that definitively establishes
[1:13:17] no, we have in fact vacated this and
automatically by law it would go to
[1:13:22] these these property owners. But if
they'd like a quick claim deed, all
[1:13:26] we're doing is saying whatever interest
we had um we've quick claimed away to
[1:13:30] whoever is the proper and rightful
owner. Uh and that's the contiguous
[1:13:34] property owner and it's filed a record.
So
[1:13:40] » this time I'll open up the public
hearing regarding the Union Pacific's
[1:13:44] petition for Ryway Vacation. Is there
any comments from the public that would
[1:13:51] like to be
[1:13:57] hearing? None. We close the public
hearing.
[1:14:00] » Yep.
We'll move to consider a petition for
[1:14:05] the vacation of a portion of the street
rideway from the city of Harrington to
[1:14:08] Union Pacific Road.
>> I just want to cl this is the property
[1:14:13] that is at the end of South N.
>> Yes, correct.
[1:14:21] » Should be an attachment in your packet
that exhibit A reflects that.
[1:14:27] I make a motion that we approve the
petition for vacation of uh proportion
[1:14:33] of the street of rightway in the city of
Harrington to the Union Pacific and
[1:14:37] authorize the mayor to sign. Second
motion in a second. Is there further
[1:14:42] discussion?
Miss L.
[1:14:48] I
>> I I
[1:14:55] moving on to consider the order. We have
not heard any public objection.
[1:15:02] Staff have anything else that they want
to present?
[1:15:06] Uh, no. It pretty much lays it all out.
I think Brad laid it all out perfectly.
[1:15:13] I think the one thing that I would
suggest and I know I talked with
[1:15:15] Thatcher about that briefly today is we
will do a double check because he asked
[1:15:20] me and I looked at it but you know again
if you glance at that legal uh that is a
[1:15:25] combined and it and it should cover
everything but I always like to do one
[1:15:29] last once we approve it and say okay
we're going to file a quick claim deed
[1:15:34] uh that they have produced um we compare
to make sure that we're not giving away
[1:15:39] something that we didn't actually vacate
or property that really we don't have
[1:15:43] any right to to don't vacate. And more
importantly from their perspective,
[1:15:47] don't forget to include the entire track
that we intend to to vacate with the
[1:15:53] approval of the petition in order.
[1:15:58] Okay. I make a motion that we approve
the order to vacate portion of the
[1:16:03] rideway for the Union Pacific Railroad.
Authorize the mayor to sign
[1:16:10] and uh pending further staff review if
needed.
[1:16:14] » Second
motion and a second. Is there further
[1:16:19] discussion motion?
[1:16:25] I I
[1:16:31] So, regarding the quick claim deed,
that one probably we probably should
[1:16:41] approve pending staff review.
>> That's what I would suggest. You know,
[1:16:45] you can go through the kind of the same
motion process with it authorized
[1:16:48] signature but pending staff review. And
the only reason again the format of it
[1:16:53] is fine. It's just a question of let's
make sure that what they expected to
[1:16:58] have happen contiguous with all the
property they've acquired and what we
[1:17:02] have taken action on uh absolutely
mirror each other. Uh I don't anticipate
[1:17:07] a problem with that, but I've learned
the hard way to right before we go to
[1:17:13] the process of filing it that we check
all of that just to be certain and that
[1:17:17] they're in agreement. So,
>> okay. I'll make a motion that we approve
[1:17:22] the quick claim deed uh between the city
of Harrington and Union Pacific.
[1:17:27] Authorize the mayor to sign attending
staff review.
[1:17:31] » Second.
>> It's a motion and a second. Further
[1:17:35] discussion.
Miss Lance.
[1:17:39] » I
>> I
[1:17:43] um I think is Brad needed for any more
or
[1:17:47] » uh No, that's it. I think Brad. Thank
you. Brad, do you have anything?
[1:17:50] » Okay, you bet.
>> Do you have anything else since we
[1:17:52] haven't heard from you in a while that
that you need to impress upon the
[1:17:54] commission?
>> Nothing that I can think of right now. I
[1:17:58] I'm kind of in the process. Today was
really kind of the first full day that I
[1:18:02] actually been able to be in the office
and [snorts] I'm trying to play a little
[1:18:05] catchup and go back over everything.
I'll uh I'm certain I'll sit down with
[1:18:10] Thatcher also and kind of cover
everything we've got outstanding because
[1:18:13] there's some areas there that probably
have kind of hung while I've been
[1:18:17] absent. But nothing that that screams
out at me right now or that I need to
[1:18:21] address this moment.
>> All right. Thank you, Brad. And feeling
[1:18:25] better. We look forward to seeing here
in person.
[1:18:28] » Thank you very much.
>> Thank you, Brad.
[1:18:34] » Megan, I'll wait to sign the order until
it's been reviewed.
[1:18:41] » All right. Consider 2026 goals and
objectives.
[1:18:45] Uh
>> well, city commissioners, we typically
[1:18:49] have this discussion usually around the
first or second meeting of the year. Um
[1:18:54] I will say this year the focus was kind
of to get through yesterday our budget
[1:18:59] workshop and and I encourage the
commission to think about that a little
[1:19:04] bit more. And so I haven't tasked you so
far with with the homework portion of of
[1:19:10] this, which is um to read our
comprehensive plan, go back through
[1:19:15] that. Um maybe go back through our
strategic plan along with our capital
[1:19:20] improvement plan and a couple of those
documents are too large to send via
[1:19:24] email, but they're accessible on the
website. And I'll send anything else
[1:19:28] that you don't have if you don't already
have it. Um but I guess annually I
[1:19:34] assign a little homework to the
commission and say, "Hey, run through
[1:19:37] those documents, identify the goals
sections and then uh merge that with
[1:19:42] maybe some of your individual goals that
you've had in the last year and bring
[1:19:46] that to our attention." And so I'd say
at this point given we don't have a full
[1:19:51] commission here and we had quite a long
day yesterday of maybe it's good to go
[1:19:56] marinate for a couple weeks and then
come back on February 3rd hopefully with
[1:20:00] a full body and I'll instruct or ask the
other few commissioners to review those
[1:20:06] critical documents and come back so we
can have a positive uh kind of
[1:20:12] discussion to start the year of okay
what do we want to accomplish before
[1:20:16] budget budget season. What do we want to
accomplish during budget season? What do
[1:20:20] we want to accomplish after budget
season? What do we want to accomplish in
[1:20:24] the next year and the next two years? Uh
so on and so forth. So um another
[1:20:30] document is there is the lake master
plan. And then I'll I'll come back on
[1:20:36] the on the third and and maybe reference
some of those prior goals that have been
[1:20:40] brought to my attention or those
outstanding projects that are kind kind
[1:20:44] of already on my list. And then we'll
kind of shuffle things around and and
[1:20:48] see what we have time for. It's kind of
at a point in the year where we can make
[1:20:52] a big push to get a few things done kind
of before budget. Um or we can identify
[1:20:58] the things we want to talk about,
whether it be projects or proposals
[1:21:01] during budget season and then uh keep
some other things on the back burner for
[1:21:06] once we're wrapped up with the budget
and we have a little bit uh have a
[1:21:10] little bit of runway to to get some of
these projects handled. So, you know, if
[1:21:14] there's there's anything you want to
talk about tonight, I'm happy to do
[1:21:17] that. But I'd love to give you a break
and give you a chance to marinate on
[1:21:21] everything we talked about yesterday,
read some of those key documents, and
[1:21:24] then hopefully come back on February 3rd
and and have a good discussion as a
[1:21:29] group. Last year, it was streets and
that was pretty much the consensus and
[1:21:33] that was it. We're in a good position
there. We're going to talk about streets
[1:21:37] as we approach budget season and how we
want to, you know, utilize the sales tax
[1:21:42] and our city budget to to start to
tackle and plan for some of that. So,
[1:21:46] that's coming. Um, but any of those
other smaller projects or things that
[1:21:51] you've thought of or that we've talked
about in the last uh year or two or we
[1:21:56] identified in the comprehensive plan,
strategic plan, um, feel free to list
[1:22:01] those. if you want to, you know, if it's
too much to remember, you want to shoot
[1:22:04] me an email, I'll reference them during
the meeting if that's easier or if you
[1:22:08] want to just show up uh with your short
list at the meeting and kind of have an
[1:22:14] and it's your chance to get out your
individual goals and then a chance to
[1:22:18] set our mutual goals. So, it's it's a
good opportunity to do that because and
[1:22:23] then we'll identify, you know, what's
first, what we have time to do, what's
[1:22:27] the mutual priority, and go from there.
So,
[1:22:32] When does the planning commission meet
next to review the comprehensive plan?
[1:22:37] » So the planning commission meets on
January 20
[1:22:44] next next Tuesday. Um and we'll probably
actually on February 3rd the planning
[1:22:50] commission will be here to present uh
some of their recommendations based on a
[1:22:55] study group they had for the zoning
regulations rewrite. So that might be on
[1:23:02] our list of goals without you guys even
bringing it up but uh that was
[1:23:07] identified in our comprehensive plan has
been one of the major initiatives that
[1:23:10] the planning commission has worked on
for the last uh six months. Um so want
[1:23:17] to get planning commission
representative here and obviously we'll
[1:23:21] invite the entire planning commission as
it sits and um we'll have fire chief
[1:23:27] here with his inspector hat on and his
planning zoning regulations hat on to to
[1:23:34] help us work through that conversation.
So, and then based on that, we can we
[1:23:40] can decide if we want to set up a
eventually a joint workshop with the
[1:23:43] with the planning commission and the
city commission down the road to maybe
[1:23:47] discuss those zoning regulations.
>> Sorry, that was a long answer to a short
[1:23:51] question.
>> You're you're absolutely fine.
[1:23:55] I think it's a great idea because you
know we've developed these program or
[1:24:00] the comprehensive plan everything we
need to keep looking at it
[1:24:04] » and see what's changed and what we need
to do and I think it's a great idea
[1:24:09] » and actually as early as next year I'd
say 2027 or even late 2026
[1:24:15] um it'll be that conversation
of okay we're three years into the plan
[1:24:21] and it's you know you're typically
around that three year mark, you're
[1:24:26] slated for a really in-depth look at
your comprehensive plan. And and
[1:24:30] somewhere between that three and
fiveyear mark, you're you're actually
[1:24:34] tasked with going in and saying, "Okay,
what have we accomplished? Where where
[1:24:37] are we at on our goals list?" So on and
so forth. So yeah, the intent of this is
[1:24:43] just to keep that conversation going,
keep that document alive, and we're
[1:24:47] really early into it, but it's easy to
to let the the work we did on that slip
[1:24:52] away and, you know, goes up on a shelf,
so to speak, and that's what we're
[1:24:56] trying to avoid here with these
conversations. So,
[1:25:00] » you know, any other committees that we
have? I don't think we have any other
[1:25:03] boards other than the planning, but of
course we'd like to have Lisa there to
[1:25:08] get some of the things that she wants to
do and stuff too
[1:25:12] » and have her input. My opinion,
[1:25:17] you know, the more people that we can
get their input and buy in to help, you
[1:25:22] know, some ideas.
>> Yeah.
[1:25:26] And, you know, I don't want the
commission to shy away from, you know,
[1:25:30] if you've got kind of an individual
Whether it's a little project or
[1:25:34] something related to parks or a sidewalk
or pothole, you know, this is I like to
[1:25:39] open up 15 20 minutes for us to express
that. And you know, what we decide as a
[1:25:45] group is is kind of where we we go. But
um you know, depending on what kind of
[1:25:51] time it's going to take, uh how much of
a priority it is, we can obviously set
[1:25:55] those goals and kind of manage
expectations on how quick we can get
[1:25:59] them accomplished, whether it's, you
know, two week thing or a two-month
[1:26:02] thing or a twoyear thing. So, but I
encourage the commission to bring up
[1:26:08] anything that they that they think they
want to try to get done in the next
[1:26:11] year. So,
>> it'll be a spirited discussion of the
[1:26:16] next [laughter]
[1:26:21] all that aside, um I like paper form.
Can you just print those whole plans out
[1:26:28] for me and I'll come pick them up when I
sign these documents?
[1:26:32] » Sure. Thank you.
>> I look at enough screens all day long.
[1:26:38] » I've already I have them in my notebook.
I've printed them already.
[1:26:42] » So, yeah, just whenever
>> Sure.
[1:26:44] » you ask me to come in and sign documents
for sure.
[1:26:50] » All right. City comments. Anything other
than that?
[1:26:53] » Uh, I'll just run through a quick Again,
reminder of Lor's retirement. Encourage,
[1:26:58] you know, folks to stop by for that.
It's going to be a come and go, but um
[1:27:03] you know, celebrate her and celebrate 20
plus years of dedicated service to the
[1:27:09] to the Hilltop and a lot of the
especially the senior population of our
[1:27:13] community. So, encourage everybody to
show up if they can. Um
[1:27:18] had a budget workshop yesterday. I'll be
sending out some follow-up documents
[1:27:22] from that pretty soon. So, keep an eye
out for that on some of what we talked
[1:27:26] about. Uh potentially get some of that
uploaded to the website here soon and
[1:27:31] hopefully uh use that as a building
block for our budget season this year.
[1:27:36] Uh
continuing to schedule apartment
[1:27:41] showings at Homestead Hilltop, trying to
work on getting units filled back up.
[1:27:46] Um,
city crews, city staff going to be
[1:27:51] preparing for extreme cold, potential
severe weather. It looks like some of
[1:27:55] it's cleared out, but we're going to
keep an eye on it either way and try to
[1:28:00] get into some of our public buildings to
make sure they're prepared for extreme
[1:28:05] cold weather. Encourage everybody to be
safe this weekend.
[1:28:09] uh
working on starting the plan for some of
[1:28:13] the outstanding airport projects we want
to complete uh now that we're done with
[1:28:17] our major FAA projects. So few do those
on the radar still or the fire station
[1:28:23] uh potential uh new hangers and
uh hoping to utilize potentially some FA
[1:28:30] uh CIP funding for maybe some asphalt
improvements out at the airport. I know
[1:28:35] that's been brought up in the past and
After we've gotten a big huge project
[1:28:40] from the FA like we just did, we we
don't get another one of those for at
[1:28:43] least a few years, but we get a little
bit of yearly funding in from the FA,
[1:28:48] about $150,000. So, we're working with
our engineers at Lochner to figure out
[1:28:53] how we can use that hopefully on some
asphalt improvements.
[1:28:56] Uh still working through the process of
the CDBG application for the potential
[1:29:02] lake shower station. Um getting some
ideas of that. I'm going to try to start
[1:29:08] exploring what's available from the CDBG
side at least to start uh for that
[1:29:13] potential project.
Uh, and real quick, I should have
[1:29:17] included this after the presentation
earlier, but I just of course want to
[1:29:22] thank Stantech, but especially want to
thank Jana Williams, and she's kind of
[1:29:26] been behind the scenes on the Brownfield
stuff, but that was I don't know if
[1:29:30] anyone remembers a million half dollar
grant and they are starting in
[1:29:34] Harrington and eventually within the
next four years going to move on to
[1:29:38] Junction City and Manhattan. But they've
done they did a lot of leg work on that
[1:29:42] for us to even get us to this point and
have done a lot of leg work on uh the
[1:29:47] buildings and getting people signed up
for the assessments. So um just want to
[1:29:53] point out that Jana Williams and Front
Hills Regional Council has been a really
[1:29:58] good asset, really good partner, not on
just on this project but other some of
[1:30:02] the other small grants we've we've done.
So, um, thanks to JNI.
[1:30:08] I think that's all I had.
[1:30:12] » Mr. May, your comments.
>> Uh, I want to thank Zapter for doing the
[1:30:16] budget, uh, workshop for us. I think it
was very good. I want to thank him for
[1:30:22] taking me on the tour of our facilities.
Uh, learn a lot about the buildings.
[1:30:27] I've lived here for quite a while, but
still learn a lot about the the
[1:30:30] buildings and things. I'd suggest
anybody
[1:30:34] doesn't like to see them, see what's
going on in the buildings and stuff.
[1:30:43] » Um, I was just wondering how our board
numbers are now that we've had some
[1:30:47] changes.
>> Um,
[1:30:49] » and the planning commission.
>> Well, luckily on the housing authority,
[1:30:52] we're at a full board now, so that's
good news.
[1:30:56] » You got a full board with you still on
it?
[1:30:58] » Yes.
>> Um,
[1:31:01] and I'm, you know, my goal is to stay on
it as as long as I'm needed or until we
[1:31:06] get a you know we find a proper
replacement. But I'm I'm happy to be
[1:31:10] there. It's been good so far. Um CVB I
think we're close to a full board less
[1:31:15] one two um
[1:31:22] » right
but Ron's worked really hard to get the
[1:31:25] CVB filled back up and then um planning
commission is where we need folks. So,
[1:31:31] need an atlarge person which is within
three miles of the city limits but not
[1:31:36] in the city limits. Um, need one more of
those. And then I think two potentially
[1:31:42] two other open positions. So, you know,
someone that's passionate about that or,
[1:31:47] you know, has a planning background or
even just cares about Harrington, it's
[1:31:52] it's at most one hour, sometimes two
hours a month, uh, middle of the day
[1:31:56] around lunch. Um, so you know, we've
already taken our planning commission
[1:32:02] down from 10 to seven uh by redoing the
charter ordinance when I first got here.
[1:32:07] So, you know, we really it's a hard
board to fill. It's it's a hard job, but
[1:32:11] we try to make it as concise as we can.
Meaning, we meet once a month. We we
[1:32:16] pack a lot of business in. We try to be
conscious and respectful of everyone's
[1:32:20] time. Some people only have an hour and
so we do the best we can and but we
[1:32:25] really need uh board members on the
planning commission. So
[1:32:30] » you don't have one person show up. You
will have qu
[1:32:33] » pretty much which you know if we're just
talking about the comp plan or zoning
[1:32:37] rags that's one thing. We can still kind
of have a workshop session where we um
[1:32:43] informally have a discussion on those
things. But you know as soon as you need
[1:32:47] a a variance or
uh you know any sort of land use zoning
[1:32:54] change you're kind of hamstrung and can
leave people waiting around for that. So
[1:33:00] uh we're tight on quorum. We definitely
if we can even get one more we'd be a
[1:33:04] lot better off. So,
we posted it to the website and Facebook
[1:33:09] a few times, but
I think it's going to be a word of mouth
[1:33:13] thing, unfortunately.
[1:33:18] » To piggy back on that a little bit,
I know you're still working on website
[1:33:23] updates.
>> Yes.
[1:33:24] » And setting up departments and pages and
whatnot.
[1:33:28] » Does all the boards we have, do they
have a separate page that links to their
[1:33:33] board?
And if not,
[1:33:40] » uh, so I have accounted for all of what
I would say the city related boards, so
[1:33:46] planning commission, um, land bank, um,
I'm thinking CVB, building and trades
[1:33:54] board,
anything that we have to point to so
[1:33:59] that it puts it further out into the
community, that board is there.
[1:34:04] Yeah, we can we can work on that. Um,
you know, probably be mostly just basic
[1:34:10] facts or whatever, but
>> doesn't have to be a lot, just
[1:34:14] something.
>> Yeah,
[1:34:16] » rather than just a every once in a while
a news article on or something.
[1:34:22] » Um, the other thing is recently started
reattending the library board meetings,
[1:34:29] sitting as mayor in the exeicial
capacity. So, I will be continuing those
[1:34:35] attendance for meetings and the library
board will start well after they approve
[1:34:42] their minutes the following meeting the
commission will see it but if there's
[1:34:46] anything that comes up
of importance to them it will be
[1:34:50] communicated through me during
commission comments. So right now their
[1:34:55] biggest concern as we are aware is their
budget. Um and that's still a learning
[1:35:01] track for
both sides that is
[1:35:06] we'll look forward to getting more
regular involvement communication with
[1:35:11] library
[1:35:14] other than that cemetery software
is it ready to go or are we close to it
[1:35:23] [clears throat]
>> as far as I know
[1:35:29] unfortunately
The military training is a lot like
[1:35:38] they will not walk out of it.
[1:35:46] You know what I mean?
>> But unfortunately a little bit
[1:36:12] Speaking of tit,
>> how are we we've completely transferred
[1:36:17] our software yet?
>> No. So, we are
[1:36:22] next weekly.
[1:36:39] And then
[1:36:43] as well.
But then
[1:37:01] unfortunately, we were supposed to have
[1:37:07] the end of the year, but we lost our
Here
[1:37:33] you go. Have a nice day. [laughter]
[1:37:43] The reason I was the reason I asked that
and brought that up because I was going
[1:37:46] to ask if the commission can start
receiving
[1:37:49] monthly general ledgers.
[1:37:53] » That's why I was wondering where you're
at.
[1:37:55] » Yeah. And
[1:38:05] » I won't hold you to it.
Maybe by summer.
[1:38:10] » I won't hold you to it.
I don't have anything else. So, anything
[1:38:15] else for the good of the community?
>> I make a motion we adjourn.
[1:38:19] » Second.
>> Miss Lurren.
[1:38:22] I