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[0:08]
um
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i think that clock is off again
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we'll call this regular city council
meeting order 1800 hours january 13
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2022.
happy new year everyone
[0:48]
first item of business would be roll
call
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all members are present with the
exception of vice mayor payne who is
[0:56]
asked to be excused this evening
[1:00]
and
next time business will be the pledge of
[1:03]
allegiance and the invocation
[1:11]
to the please
of the united states of america and to
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the republic for which it stands one
nation under god indivisible with
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liberty and justice for all
amen
[1:28]
our dear father in heaven we're grateful
that we could be assembled on behalf of
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the
[1:34]
the citizens of holbrook please bless us
with
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good judgment and
that we will do thy will bless those
[1:42]
that are mourning in our community and
those that are ill
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bless us that we can
create harmony and
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and bring souls unto thee
let me ask these things in the name of
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jesus christ amen amen amen
[2:03]
moving on to item for
consensus
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do we have any comments or questions on
this item
[2:22]
hearing none all in favor
any opposed
[2:26]
no opposed consent agenda passage
we've gone to item five called the
[2:31]
public for
non-agenda items there are none
[2:36]
called the public for agenda items
none as well
[2:42]
moving on to new business for discussion
and possible action a
[2:46]
7a
approval or approve the travel center of
[2:50]
america
located at 1347
[2:55]
express drive application for
a number 10 beer and wine store license
[3:10]
with one
minor modification on page four
[3:14]
of the application um
both five is the business located within
[3:19]
the incorporated city
um that was indicated no it is so we
[3:23]
just need to change that to yes
[3:29]
have a motion with the correction here a
second
[3:32]
exactly
you have a motion second do you have any
[3:34]
other comments or
concerns on that
[3:38]
no i caught the same thing that adam did
on
[3:40]
there also we have a representative here
from travel center if any of you have
[3:45]
any questions for him or if you have any
questions of us
[3:50]
anybody have any questions for him it'd
be nice to know them
[3:54]
introduce
my name is casey scott i've been with
[3:57]
the site for 10 years i was there before
ta even purchased the place started
[4:01]
there as a janitor and worked my way up
and so i take a great pride in making
[4:06]
sure that we do everything by the book
and doing it the right way so if you
[4:10]
guys haven't ever come by ask for casey
and would love to sit down and have
[4:14]
lunch with you guys
appreciate it mr scott thank you
[4:19]
we have no other questions we have a
motion a second
[4:22]
with a modification
all those in favor of approving this say
[4:26]
hi all right all right any opposed
hearing none more opposed
[4:32]
motion passes
okay moving on to item b
[4:38]
approval of the over 76 located at 1300
navajo boulevard
[4:44]
application for number 10 beer and wine
license
[4:53]
surely entertain a motion
i hope that we approve it second
[4:57]
i have a motion in a second do we have
any
[5:00]
comments or concerns on this one
and i don't believe we have a
[5:05]
representative here from them
this evening so my
[5:12]
motion is second all in favor
any opposed
[5:18]
no opposed
let it be
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passes
[5:24]
okay now we will move on to the
proclamation hashtag tony express week
[5:30]
i will read a proclamation of course it
gives me the condensed copy of it and i
[5:35]
didn't bring my glasses i'm sorry
proclamation
[5:41]
whereas the hashtag kodi express writers
are making
[5:45]
our members of the navajo county
sheriff's posse dedicated to keeping the
[5:49]
lively memory of those planter men and
women who lived loved laughed and
[5:55]
died while carrying the
carving art history and whereas
[6:02]
once a year the house knife riders
ring
[6:07]
to holbrook and payson
holbrook payson and scottsdale an
[6:11]
opportunity to minify step back into
time and experience the touch of
[6:17]
yesteryear and whereas
it is also
[6:20]
the
united desire to honor and acknowledge
[6:24]
all of the past writers and supporters
of this historic event
[6:29]
now therefore
we j merrill young
[6:33]
thomas morrissey and david
dave ortega mayors of city of holbrook
[6:40]
town of payson and city of scottsdale do
hereby proclaim the week of february 1st
[6:46]
through the 14th 2022
as hash knife pony express week
[6:53]
mayor
yes sir i think it says the 4th
[6:57]
february 1st through the 4th
first is ok
[7:01]
yes it does february 1st through the 4th
2022
[7:07]
and that doesn't require any
action on it so
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if you have any comments or
questions the
[7:16]
head man from the
[7:20]
hash knife is here mr reynolds
[7:26]
mr mayor
members of the council
[7:29]
uh thank you once again for supporting
our 64th annual hashman funny express
[7:33]
ride
2021 was pretty hard on everybody
[7:39]
that it was extremely hard on the
hashtag
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we lost
uh four of our regular members
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and this year we have dedicated
this ride to their memory
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and uh john dean and all wade carlyle
jerry young
[7:59]
and bob cassidy
and
[8:02]
i brought you a
poster
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so and i will give you the frame poster
tuesday night at the dinner but this is
[8:12]
for you
[8:15]
thank you
[8:20]
anybody have any questions or comments
from mr reynolds
[8:25]
again thank you mark okay i appreciate
what you guys do i know it's a yeah it's
[8:28]
a tough haul so
yeah looking forward to seeing it happen
[8:32]
it's a logistical migrant
[Laughter]
[8:38]
thank you guys for taking this alive
[8:44]
okay moving on to
7d
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approved navajo county middle mile
broadband network letter of course we
[8:53]
have glenn gephardt here but i noticed
glenn's not here michelle would you like
[8:57]
to come up and speak to us on this
[9:10]
members of the council appreciate the
time and the opportunity i also have
[9:13]
supervisor banali here um as well so
give her a couple of minutes just to
[9:18]
kind of give a brief introduction and
then i can provide details about the
[9:21]
request
i'll just introduce myself
[9:26]
my name is uh
fern bernoulli i'm the naval county
[9:31]
board of supervisor in the district 1
which covers
[9:35]
majority of the
navajo nations
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on the northern end and also some poopy
areas
[9:43]
and part of the city
around some city
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and um not sun city
sun valley
[9:53]
excuse me close enough anyways um
and navajo we introduce ourselves by
[10:00]
clan so i'm bitter water clan
born for near water my
[10:06]
grand paternal grandfathers are
[10:11]
folded arms and
my
[10:14]
paternal
grandfather this red house
[10:18]
so i'm from the black mesa area near the
peabody coal mine
[10:24]
police area
so
[10:27]
thank you city
officials mayor vice mayor and all the
[10:33]
board members
for
[10:36]
listening to
rochelle to give details on the
[10:41]
broadband thank you
thank you welcome
[10:46]
so um mayor the request tonight is for a
letter of support for navajo county's
[10:51]
application for the arizona commerce
authority's
[10:55]
rural broadband grant so in 2020 navajo
county hired magellan consultants to
[11:00]
help us develop a broadband master plan
to really figure out how do we get
[11:04]
reliable affordable broadband to navajo
county because i think all of us are
[11:09]
aware
what we have doesn't work well when it
[11:13]
works so um based on that plan what what
was determined was that we have no
[11:18]
redundancy within navajo county so when
one part of the the system goes out we
[11:22]
all go out um
and so
[11:25]
what we are proposing to do is to apply
to the commerce authority to implement a
[11:30]
redundant loop that would take broadband
middle model
[11:34]
fiber from holbrook
all the way south on 77 through show low
[11:40]
down to pine top lakeside out to huber
overguard and then implement a wireless
[11:46]
network from
hebrew overguard over chevron canyon out
[11:49]
to winslow
so the intent would be that this would
[11:53]
be
the county-owned middle mile network
[11:56]
that then third-party internet service
providers could come into our
[12:00]
communities and lease that fiber to
provide last-mile internet services out
[12:05]
to businesses
and residences throughout navajo county
[12:10]
we feel that this is a great investment
for the entire county and that it will
[12:15]
really improve the quality of broadband
service we have
[12:19]
the other advantage about what this plan
is hoping to do is that we've um
[12:24]
partnered with and consulted with both
of the well not both all three of the
[12:28]
tribes within the county hopi navajo
nation and the white mountain apache
[12:32]
tribe so that our plan aligns with and
dubs dovetails into the the broadband
[12:38]
plans that they have so that we're not
only creating um that redundancy for our
[12:42]
non-tribal communities but we're also
tapping into the work and the
[12:46]
infrastructure that our tribal
communities are building so that we're
[12:48]
leveraging all of the resources to
really
[12:52]
build up this entire county
so the the request that we're hoping
[12:57]
from you is that you um mayor will sign
on to a joint letter of support from all
[13:02]
of the mayors within navajo county
in support of this project that
[13:06]
navajo county is applying for we're also
um getting letters of support from the
[13:11]
president of navajo nation and
chairwoman lee gatewood with the white
[13:15]
mountain apache tribe as well
[13:22]
could you just find middle mile network
and last mile infrastructure
[13:27]
i can so the middle mile network is
really um
[13:31]
the
think of it as kind of the highway
[13:34]
system that gets the service from place
to place it really functions as the
[13:39]
roadway whereas last mile is the service
that actually comes to your home it's
[13:45]
the the wires that are required to
actually hook up your computer to the
[13:49]
internet or to actually get the service
to the home so the county won't be
[13:53]
investing in that last mile provider
service what we're investing in is the
[13:58]
roadway what we have heard time and time
again from the service providers who do
[14:02]
exist in our area is that
the most expensive part of providing
[14:06]
internet service is the middle mile
infrastructure it's building out
[14:10]
those systems and so as a result
they don't invest in those we and we see
[14:15]
that across the country um
service providers are hesitant to invest
[14:19]
in rural communities because it is so
expensive to invest in that middle model
[14:23]
infrastructure because we're all spread
out they would rather put those dollars
[14:27]
in in more concentrated populations so
what the county um is doing as part of
[14:33]
this proposal is we actually released an
rfp that just closed on monday for a
[14:40]
last mile
partner who will then be able to work
[14:43]
with the county
to bring in those last mile service
[14:46]
providers to actually get from the the
middle mile infrastructure to the homes
[14:51]
because we recognize if we don't have
actual internet service providers
[14:56]
that middle model infrastructure doesn't
do any good so the entire proposal
[15:01]
includes last mile partnerships to get
service
[15:04]
out to the end user
[15:08]
anybody else else have any comments or
questions for yourself
[15:14]
one more married council um
[15:18]
so navajo county has taken this on
was there any kind of
[15:24]
business
businesses in the area that were in this
[15:28]
part of the united states that were
willing to take this on so that's what
[15:31]
the intent of the rfp was for was to
find an internet service provider who
[15:37]
would be willing to partner with the
county
[15:39]
on this project application so the
county is in the process of reviewing
[15:44]
those um
responses to that rfp currently as we
[15:49]
speak i think they had their first
review committee meeting yesterday
[15:52]
i will say that the county has um
committed to
[15:56]
allocating a large portion of their argo
dollars to the match for this project um
[16:01]
the project is anticipated to cost
between 17 and 20 million dollars to
[16:06]
build out this middle mile
infrastructure and so the county has um
[16:11]
has committed a significant amount of
their dollars for the project okay so
[16:15]
when it's all said and done
who will own
[16:19]
the infrastructure the county um and the
reason for that is in order to prevent
[16:25]
monopolies um so that the
the access to last mile services uh is
[16:32]
as affordable as possible and so that it
encourages competition
[16:37]
right now i think we all know we only
have
[16:40]
two
strong service providers in our area and
[16:43]
when you only have two service providers
there's not much choice for consumers
[16:47]
and so the hope is that by the county
owning the infrastructure um we'll be
[16:52]
able to lease that to multiple providers
to help
[16:55]
drive competition okay thank you
you have a question yeah
[17:02]
so
so we all know that they just passed
[17:04]
this big infrastructure
[17:08]
so we know there's going to be money out
there for this especially like this last
[17:12]
mile
so has that been looked into by the
[17:16]
county um
it has okay
[17:21]
and
so is that gonna help pick up for our
[17:25]
residents
on in the county
[17:28]
to get that to the house
yes so that is part of the comprehensive
[17:33]
master plan we've already begun
discussing um
[17:37]
what that next phase looks like we're we
are confident that um we will be able to
[17:42]
get the funding for the middle mile
infrastructure all 17 million
[17:47]
through this round of funding through
the commerce authority the commerce
[17:50]
authority has already said um they have
another 100 million coming through at
[17:56]
the state level it's unclear whether
that is part of their infrastructure
[17:59]
allocation or whether that's separate
from our allocation but we know at
[18:03]
minimum there is another 100 million
coming through in this state
[18:07]
so part of the conversation we're having
in our next
[18:12]
round of conversations with which
whatever whatever partner we end up on
[18:16]
um internet service provider will be
that conversation of what is our next um
[18:21]
grant application look like to actually
get that infrastructure built out um to
[18:27]
the end user to the businesses to the
homes um and that will be based on
[18:31]
uh communities that are currently
underserved or unserved um it will
[18:36]
depend on the speeds one of the things
that was found out in the master
[18:41]
planning process was
the actual speed tests that magellan did
[18:46]
throughout the county and so what we
learned which was really surprising is
[18:49]
that what most of us pay for and the
speeds that we're supposed to be getting
[18:53]
based on the service we paid for is not
what we received that's probably no real
[18:58]
surprise to any of you um but magellan
was able to empirically show that by
[19:02]
having residents who took the survey
actually conduct speed tests
[19:06]
on the service they were receiving in
their wherever they were taking it at
[19:09]
work or at home so that is the next
phase of our round of grant applications
[19:15]
both at the federal level as well as the
state dollars that will be coming out
[19:22]
well
um
[19:24]
so
once it's all done so the last mile
[19:28]
uh infrastructure that would
be put out to bid or
[19:33]
we're not quite sure what that would
look like because um
[19:37]
the way the middle mile project is
designed
[19:40]
we will be able to
begin leasing once that infrastructure
[19:44]
is built we will begin to release that
middle mile fiber
[19:47]
so we might not need as much grant
funding for last mile connectivity
[19:52]
because a lot of times your
internet service providers will build
[19:56]
out because they want to own that last
mile infrastructure they don't want the
[20:00]
county to own it um and so
if we cover the cost for the middle
[20:04]
model they're more than likely to cover
the cost for the last mile so the amount
[20:08]
of grant funding necessary to cover that
last mile will not we don't anticipate
[20:12]
will be as much um so we're not sure how
much
[20:15]
that
that will be okay and you have you all
[20:18]
considered because we have two providers
in the area now is there a possibility
[20:22]
that they could buy all that
or or would you have a competitive where
[20:27]
other entities could come in
all of the capacity on the the middle
[20:32]
mile is that what you're doing no on the
the
[20:35]
last mile
infrastructure
[20:38]
no because they would have to in order
to
[20:41]
um
in order for any provider um to own
[20:46]
essentially the last mile they would
have to lease all of that capacity from
[20:49]
the county on the middle mile
because the county's goal is to create
[20:54]
competition
it would be my guess that the county
[20:57]
would not be open to sole sourcing all
of that middle mile fiber to one
[21:02]
provider okay yeah that's my question
thank you
[21:07]
any other comments or questions
phil thank you appreciate it yeah
[21:13]
okay did we take a little initiative
[21:27]
second have a motion and a second
all in favor
[21:36]
moving on to item e and this is going
back to what we first reading from
[21:42]
the last meeting we had ordinance 21
14
[21:47]
the second reading
[21:52]
ordinance of the city of holbrook
arizona regarding condominiums and
[21:56]
townhouses whereas people are moving to
holbrook creating a scarcity of housing
[22:02]
and whereas housing costs continue to
rise and whereas condominiums and
[22:07]
townhouses offer an option for those who
are unable to find housing or may not be
[22:12]
able to afford a single family home and
whereas although condominiums are
[22:17]
defined in the city code condominiums
and townhouses are not specifically
[22:22]
listed in any zone
and whereas it is the desire of the city
[22:26]
council to clarify that condominiums and
townhouses are allowed to be built in
[22:32]
the city
[22:35]
and this is second reason so
i'm sure we'll entertain a motion i'll
[22:41]
make a motion that we approve ordinance
21-14
[22:46]
second
motion and a second and
[22:50]
this is an ordinance so it requires a
roll called vote
[22:54]
uh mirror young
aye
[22:57]
council member dixon aye councilmember
kester all right council member marsh
[23:02]
aye council member nielsen aye
councilmember wilford aye
[23:07]
ocean passes
ted thank you for the work on that
[23:11]
you're welcome
i think it's very good for our community
[23:14]
to clean up the code that this way well
just for those watching if they don't
[23:18]
haven't kept up from when we did this we
read this the first time all this is
[23:22]
basically updating language and
definitions in the
[23:27]
ordinance here to provide opportunities
for additional capacity and
[23:32]
additional types of buildings or
residences
[23:38]
thank you for that explanation
moving on to item f resolution
[23:44]
21-13
resign a resolution designating
[23:48]
authority to execute an airport rescue
grant
[23:52]
i'm sure we'll entertain a motion
[23:56]
adopt resolution
[24:00]
second devotion
and i'll read this resolution by hitting
[24:04]
only unless well i'll read the whereas
because it does have the dollar figures
[24:09]
resolution 2113 a resolution of the
merit council the city of holbrook
[24:13]
navajo county arizona
designating authority to execute an
[24:18]
airport rescue grant
where whereas the city has been approved
[24:23]
to receive 22 000 in federal funds
titled airport rescue grant offer
[24:30]
for the holbrook municipal airport and
whereas
[24:33]
the federal aviation administration
agrees to pay
[24:36]
100
of the allowable costs incurred as a
[24:40]
result of
and in accordance with this grant and
[24:43]
whereas
as part of the acceptance the mayor and
[24:46]
the city council must approve authority
to execute this group
[24:52]
we have a motion and a second
on the floor
[24:56]
again a resolution requires a roll call
vote
[25:00]
do you have a
question comments yes
[25:04]
um
so this is
[25:07]
titled the airport rescue grant
and i might take exception with that
[25:12]
title our airport does not need rescuing
um the other thing is
[25:17]
some things i brought up on past grants
namely
[25:21]
under page 9
section 22 and page 20
[25:27]
section 18.
so those are my objections thank you
[25:32]
thank you
any other comments or questions on it
[25:38]
hearing none roll call vote please
may romero young all right council
[25:43]
member dixon nick
council member kester all right
[25:47]
council member mark aye council member
nielsen aye constable wilford aye
[25:54]
motion
[26:01]
okay moving on to item g
[26:05]
approved purchase of bleachers for hunt
park baseball field
[26:13]
tim kelly is not here basically
discussion of the hunt park baseball
[26:17]
field bleachers have
exceeded their life expectancy and are
[26:21]
no longer considered safe therefore bids
were obtained
[26:26]
pw athletic for thirty one thousand nine
hundred and fifty three seventy four
[26:32]
for
k part twenty five thousand seven
[26:35]
hundred and forty nine forty six and for
jpro 21
[26:41]
395.80 at
88
[26:44]
the recommendation is to approve the
purchase
[26:49]
from jpro bleachers in the amount of
twenty one thousand three hundred and
[26:53]
ninety five eighty eight
i make a motion motion that we approve
[26:58]
the
um
[27:00]
the bleacher purchase through jpro for
21
[27:05]
and eighty eight 395.88
[27:07]
wait a second a second
motion of the second do you have any
[27:11]
comments or questions on this item
i just wanna clarify or
[27:15]
confirm these are grant monies there
that's correct yes
[27:21]
any other comments or questions
[27:25]
hearing none we've got a motion and a
second all in favor
[27:29]
all right
any opposed
[27:36]
okay summary of current events
well we've been kind of
[27:41]
off for a while nice to have everybody
back in
[27:45]
i really don't have a whole lot hope
everybody had a good christmas uh
[27:49]
happy new year
uh i know there's
[27:53]
been a few
deaths within the city i'm not sure
[27:57]
of all who they were i know we did lose
one of our business members the owner of
[28:02]
the
winner's circle restaurant condolences
[28:05]
to him and his family
unfortunately
[28:11]
thank the mayor the city manager for
putting all this together there's a lot
[28:16]
of work involved in this uh
and this certain
[28:20]
a lot of a lot of discussions and stuff
on the new business items and stuff
[28:24]
you've been working pretty hard to come
in and see them every day so
[28:27]
again thank you ted for all your efforts
that you put in welcome
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start with council members councilman
dixon
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um i keep waiting for winter to get here
and we'll just keep having these balmy
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days
ted i want to thank you too for your
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attention to detail
and your professionalism and in
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everything that you do here thank you
thank you that's it
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i just want to bring um
one opportunity to focus the attention
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that is uh the city of
excuse me the chamber of commerce is
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providing a small business workshop
this is free and it includes lunch and
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it's on tuesdays
from january 18th to february 15th so
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that's five
opportunities
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um
there's various themes about opening
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small businesses and what you may or may
not want to be doing
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so call cindy tafoya the chamber
her website her excuse me her phone
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number's on the website uh
on the chamber's website and on facebook
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so um if you know of anybody who's on
the fence about opening up business
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because they don't think they know what
exactly to do or i think this is a good
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opportunity
so adam is this going to be at the
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chamber or where will there's one detail
and neglected right down okay but since
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you'll have that
i think there's a there's a flyer on
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facebook and on the
web page for the chamber about that
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they're from noon to one
on tuesdays
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thank you councilman johnson wolford
just want to wish everybody a happy new
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year
i know it's got to get better this year
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yeah we've lost a lot of uh
famous people a lot of local people
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family members
it's been tough this last year
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so
i'm looking forward to it uh
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really looking forward to this broadband
i think it's going to be something
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really significant to
improve the
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daily lives of our local
residents in our county so we really
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appreciate the
county
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on top of all that and bringing it to us
especially with our brothers and sisters
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out there on the reds that have been so
isolated for so many years
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that uh this is really gonna
bring them up to
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uh
cold i'd say you know it's long overdue
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so
yeah kudos to the county
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kudos to you ted amazing
uh work you're doing so thank you hang
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in there
thank you councilman councilman nelson
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to go off of what kip said
you know during the pandemic a lot of
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our reservation kids going to our school
district weren't adequately served
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because of the internet and this will
this will greatly increase the ability
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if we do have another pandemic or
another
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emergency
for them to get the
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education to the zoom education
that they need anyway i wanted to bring
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up also that ron scorse had passed away
from covet
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and uh he was a long time resident here
he's a he worked for aps for for years
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and years as a surveyor
and also with the hash knife
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uh their sendoff dinner
uh it's tuesday february 1st
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at 6 00 pm
at the elks
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but
they're sending off breakfast is the
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next morning at the senior center
at 7 a.m
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and there's i think it's
seven or eight dollars at the
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it's not very much for the breakfast and
it's fifteen dollars i just wanted to
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bring that up
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and raymond barella that's right raymond
bareilles also passed away
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who was
a lifelong resident of holbrook that's
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our signage guy right whole family
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yes i'd like to wish everybody a happy
healthy and prosperous new year
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and ron sports was a good friend of mine
we raced together
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way back in the 70s
and
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barela raymond
nicknamed bonehead
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so most people known by that
i've done a lot of dealings with them
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and had a good time i
i was really shocked with both of them
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wow
ron scorse who just did our surveyor
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cemetery
that rounds course
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it probably was the same guy 74 years
old he just surveyed our cemetery
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yeah
lived up on the hill
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just really
a great guy
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right and he was he was up and adam
one day and
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people saw him about town and the very
next day
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he passed away in the ambulance on the
way to the hospital
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complications dude called it
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uh city manager okay
um
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in addition to this grant that you just
approved we will be receiving another
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grant this is an adot airport pavement
preservation program the grant is for
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171 561 dollars uh that will require a
10 match and that will be for taxiway a
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uh the funds will be used for crack
ceiling seal coding and or an overlay
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and of course these procedures will
extend the life of that taxiway
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uh
the we've been finishing up some work on
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our community center they're doing a
remodel
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staff is painting replacing floors
windows lights upgrading the restrooms
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to handling kept accessible we purchased
new chairs
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and now that
location will be able to use for small
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events up to 48 people
the daily rental fee on that is 50 right
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now our community center is booked just
about every weekend so this gives them
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provides another opportunity folks that
have small events
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and then it also
allows us to properly properly utilize
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that building so we're excited about
getting that done uh we'll also be
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putting some new windows in the police
department and finally should be getting
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gutters installed i've been working on
that program for a while we had to go to
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a different vendor and then in addition
to that we purchased some new mobile
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computers for the police department
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also work is being done on the leski
park concession stand
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um they will
restart that work they shifted gears to
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the community center because of the
colder weather
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it's a lot nicer working on the inside
there
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and then uh the next project that we've
got coming up is going to be the
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restrooms at the golf course i don't
know if any of you have taken a look at
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those restrooms that they're pretty in
pretty bad shape
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uh steve was pretty excited about that
when i told him the day that that's the
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next uh project that we have coming up
so i'll be upgraded new paint new
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flooring
new toilets new sinks and upgrade to be
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handicapped accessible i'm really
looking forward to that because those
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restrooms are in pretty bad shape then
finally um i'm adding borrow field to
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the parks renovation grant program that
we had talked about in the past all the
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work that we're doing we had a request
and apparently they've been trying for
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many many years now to get lighting in
place and so with this grant we'll be
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able to add lighting to barrel field and
we'll also be replacing the bleachers
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bleachers are in pretty bad shape
somebody's been jumping on them so
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i'm also doing some research there are
other opportunities for other grants as
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far as
the baseball fields are concerned
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uh and that may or may not happen we'll
see but i'll look into that
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whether or not we get that particular
grant we do have grant funds though to
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finish up that project so we will be
getting uh new lights and new bleachers
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for um borough field so that's really
exciting
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and that's all i had mayor thank you
just one question for you today
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hopefully i'm not throwing a curveball
how's the uh sensing project coming yeah
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so um this morning uh
uh tim met with the defense person
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uh that's actually gonna be doing the
fence work and they just went over the
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plans and they should start on that
project in february thank you
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okay moving on to item nine submissions
of written petitions for items
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item 10
adjournment material entertainment
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motion for a journal
i make a motion return
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second motion motion a second all in
favor
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all right
any opposed
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adam gets to stay here
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i'm gonna check the minutes ted
one of
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those four of us