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6th Street I'm sorry can you repeat your
Denton d n t o

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NK I want to know who is responsible for
the corner of Canton and 6 Street stop

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sign that was put on the lamp post where
more than 50% of the people run it every

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day and I'd like to know who's
responsible for the wheat Patches at the

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Dakota Mark gas station and the highway
Cottages cuz I got to look at those

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every day and last is uh who's
responsible for the six beautiful Street

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lamps on Canton and 385 that don't

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work um I I'm sorry I tried to get all
that but the weat

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sted all those weeds grow and those two
locations please yes uh theota Mark gal

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station and the Hideway

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Cottages um and then who's responsible

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for the five street lights that
yeah six of them right there on 6th

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Street and

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385 thanks I talked to Monty from do and
he told me that he didn't know so

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okay not going or you I'm writing down
to make sure I got all your

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questions uh stop sign at Canton and 6th
are you concern that there's one there

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or just the location of it the location
is actually on the on the Street Lamp is

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on a regular pole and I know that I
believe the tree is on the easement so

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as the traffic comes through they just
equip through in the winter time this

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last winter they were not stopping and
they turned right and they would spin so

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luckily no one got hit but that's one of
the things they can't see that stop sign

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okay so you're okay with this you're
okay with the stop sign being there you

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just want it more visible yeah and they
can put a pole next to it it's a little

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bit closer to the street where they can
see it something yeah a pole there is

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fine okay uh then you were talking about
the weeds uh on the other side of the

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intersection uh the person that would be
responsible for those would be the

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property owners so we'll follow up with
that okay and then you said six lights

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street lights yeah those big pretty
lights that they put up they worked I

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think a couple of times and they haven't
been on a long time okay how you went

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they they last time they were on are
those around the new island they're

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really pretty they they they are and I
asked from do and they said they didn't

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know okay go do they turn on every night
if they started to then they go on and

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off and now they just don't even turn
off okay so Deborah was asking about the

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new lights did I understand you to say
black lights no they're black lamps

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they're there are old the old street
lights yeah yeah okay all right so I

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know who ask about those we'll talk with
the uh Street folks and see what's going

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on
there yeah I noticed that they worked

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and then they didn't so I just thought
well maybe the electricians haven't

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finished something so I didn't say
anything either my

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bad that's it did we answer your

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questions yes all right are you going to
find answer yeah how do we follow up

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with you how do you follow up yeah after
they fin the answer question to ask call

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City Hall or shall we call you call me
if you'd like to share your phone number

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with me you want down I'll make sure to
share it with mayor

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oh and

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Esther um Gary tried to get me to talk
to you so I want you to be aware of that

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in case yall want something to talk
about after the

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meeting you if I seen Larry seen driving
by L you would hon the horn and I would

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wait haven't seen maybe they mooved you
in a different I'm just trying to show

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support for Gary here thank you Esther
thank you eser thank you

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thank you
ma'am anyone

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else Esther showed you how to do it just
come on

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down all
right uh on to council updates executive

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director
Andrea uh with shedo

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good evening mayor city council can you
hear me a little louder hello louder I

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can hear you just fine can you I think I
can can you folks in the audience

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here okay I'll try to get as close as I
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can this will be the quarterly report
report for June July and August um

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iore I parti ipated in a regional
accelerator program as a mentor for a

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new business startup which focused on
customer Discovery the program was a 5we

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course with 3 to four hour learning
sessions and office meetings with an

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advisor as well as extensive homework
and a final presentation the client that

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I've been working with knocked the whole
thing out of the ballpark I've received

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word that there's more funding available
for further customer Discovery and we

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met on August 14th with Beth Lambo she's
the associate vice president for

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research Innovation and
Entrepreneurship from South Dakota

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School of minds and Technology we met
with her to strategize research partners

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for this
project building one and Castle Manor

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I've met with three developers to show
building W and Castle Manor over the

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seever month summer months and I've also
sent the floor plans plat and our

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housing study to those interested
parties so I am trying to keep the

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interest up about our vacant
buildings engage South Dakota South

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Dakota newsat and the Cheesman Center
for democracy have partnered to examine

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significant issues for communities
across South Dakota they chose two

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communities Watertown and hot springs
for their pilot project this Cheesman

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Center is designing a survey to be
released to Hot Springs residents in the

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fall of 24 to learn what our primary
issues are I will be having a remote

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meeting with the group on August 20th
the group of organizers not the

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residents and South Dakota news watch
plans to be here the week of October

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10th for

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pre-planning Rushmore region Alliance
education Round Table in lie of our

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bonly meeting on September 5th the
Rushmore region Alliance is going to

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host a round table for higher education
institutions to learn what each is doing

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to address our Workforce needs in the
area the School of Mines Western Dakota

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Tech Black Hill State and Shad State
have all been invited to this round

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table Western Dakota board of retreat
the retreat was held on July 19th

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facilitated by ACC consultant Ken
Foley we covered seven different topics

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I won't Bor you with them but they're in
the report and the retreat resulted in

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four pages of action items
Western Dakota Tech applied for a rural

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development Grant to become a hub for
registered apprentiship cooperatives in

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the Black Hills area they did not
receive the grant this round they're

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going to
reapply but I will pursue the program at

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the local level with our school
districts as well as set up facilitation

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of the Bild Dakota scholarship
applications for seniors fall is the

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time to begin work on these programs
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historic preservation I submitted a a
memo of

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notification that was requested from Bob
Jr uh about a month ago it entails our

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efforts to assist in refurbishing and
maintaining our Historic downtown

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Sandstone structures there were many CR
questions that I had to leave blank such

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as what buildings would need to come
down in what order and in what year if

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we cannot find appropriate funding Bob
Nelson Jr is working to fill in the

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blanks on that letter I'm currently
helping a resident owner of one of our

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downtown buildings s in an application
for the out of Deadwood Grant fund which

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the next cycle comes due in January of

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25 FAA report and Business Park
progress goed designation I met with the

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air committee and members of Hot Spring
City Council to discuss the results of

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the FAA findings of how the city
acquired the property for the airport

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the property was part of a land trade so
the farm Security Administration could

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complete a project they were working on
Brian shook with FAA sent an email to

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this effect and stated that the team
believes so

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far that the release of the property can
be handled is if the land was acquired

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with local funds rather than a federal
obligation this means we wouldn't have

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to go through any of the federal reviews
the Nea reviews The Arc reviews those

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kinds of things that are quite time
consuming mayor Nelson has sent the list

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of restrictions to their lawyers for
review and a decision will need to be

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made as to whether the restrictions
would be released this will be up to

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city
council I will attend an in-depth

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training session on land acquisition and
Business Park development on August 27th

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and 29 through the 29th sorry on August
9th I was informed by Jennifer sedma

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director of West River planning that hot
springs was chosen by goed as one of 17

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designated high impact Economic
Development locations with the goal of

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creating a business park so that dub
Tales quite nicely Mayor Bob Nelson city

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councilman bill lucans and I attended an
informational session on August 16th to

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learn more about what this designation
means ener

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report the data from the final report
was very proi positive with the

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exception of a few complaints about the
distances that residents had to walk 49

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of the
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going to stay an extra night so that was
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third several people said they were
going to bring their families back for a

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vacation so that was really good no news
the final expenditures during the

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conference
I want you to know that these are margin

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of error numbers so they're a span of
numbers so for food and drinks

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3,822 to
5,19 I'm going to skip I've got the

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whole list of everything but I'm going
to skip

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through sure absolutely the total of

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expenditures while the register will
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34888 and 50,

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564 that spread accounts for a margin of
error we don't know an exact total

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because these are estimated based on
actual spending of those who completed

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the survey and then averaged out among
all of the attendees that number doesn't

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include what we paid for food for meals
and breaks during the conference that

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includes
$255 to wandering bison $59 to two Cal

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scaryy
$2,300 to smoking Mexican 665 to Dave

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the superfood truck
$1,330 to the chamber for

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the extensions half of the chamber bucks
and that total amounts to $

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5,529
64 those are actual dollar spent so if I

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take out the margin of error between
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50564 what the report showed with that
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5529 was $4 48,2
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reported that's the actual number that
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margin of
error any questions about that and that

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was just for two days worth of
conference that was less that was $26 2

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yes not two
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I formed a masterminds group for female
workers with remote positions we've met

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five times over the summer and we've
helped each other work through some of

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the barriers and challenges of working
at distance from other employees and

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offices will also be exploring the
possibility of a local project Health

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conference I've applied for a
scholarship to cover the cost of travel

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and hotel for the creating Healthy and
Wealthy communities workshop on October

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1 and two presented by the South Dakota
Department of

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Health

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everybody I think that's
everything all the big stuff any

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questions about any of
that I just want to say thank you Andrea

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it's given
the size of the city staff and the the

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already very significant workload I
don't see how we could do what you're

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doing with our existing Staffing so
thank you

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for for being a part thank you you
man I did I

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did also include the hospital part the
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the old hospital not just the Castle
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right and then building one is up at the
state that's

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home
we it's a fantastic building I would

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love to find someone to convert it into
Apartments Andrea recently in the news

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it talked about uh $3 million being
brought to the Black Hills and hot

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springs being one of the recipients of
some of the funding for housing uh can

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you enlighten on that
can so Black Hills area Community

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Foundation approached us about forming a
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committee and it's been over a year ago
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23 and we were the first group to
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it and they had not applied Black Hills
Community area foundation had not

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applied for3 million in federal funding
yet they did this with the help of

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Senator rounds they got the funding on
the first

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try the funds will be used for low
interest interest loans for developers

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to do
housing and the housing has to be for

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folks who are 80% of Ami and Ami is a
funny funny number

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because 80% of Ami for one one single
person in Far rer county is about

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50,000 for two people it's about
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57,000 for three it's about 62 so if you
have kids you get about 6,000 more

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dollars accredited so it really
diminishes as the number of people in

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your household goes up so it's uh it'll
be interesting how it's

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utilized but we decided as a a committee
as a housing committee to go ahead and

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participate in the event that we would
needed in the future we at least wanted

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to have a place at the
table okay does that answer your

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question it sure did thank you very much
Andrea um so we're just talking about

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getting funding and grants for how come
we don't have private investors how come

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we don't have real estate Moguls coming
in and looking to develop on their own

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with why do we have to rely on
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funding can can you be can you elaborate
I don't understand what you're are we

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are we friendly to entrepreneurs are we
friendly to business people how come we

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why do we have to rely on grants for
housing why can't we

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get you know just regular developers
coming in and buying land and dividing

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it and
building I I just want do you know why

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any any insight on speculate okay okay
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and that's not a grant that was a loan

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okay the state loves
loans and they like 50 match loans too

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um so one of the developers that I had
come and look at building one and Castle

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Manor works for a company that's in
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Wisconsin and he told me that labor and
materials costs are 30% higher in Rapid

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City in the Hills than they are in those
other two states and the eastern part of

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South Dakota I know that's not a
complete answer right okay so it's it's

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just it's just a little more expensive
to do everything here in the Black Hills

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yes okay it is and refurbishing a
building has its own set of I'm sure you

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know is okay are there any any prospects
for manufacturing technology anything

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that like pays a like a wages for a
family afford to live here like a

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family yeah
um there are and uh the issue will be

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finding a place to put them and building
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capacity for any of those companies who
would like to come here I get rfis

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requests for
information on a monthly basis sometimes

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several a week it it just depends on the
year and one of the things that I find

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interesting that people don't know about
hot springs in farer County they always

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want to be within 10 Mi of I90 well
guess what 79 is a super highway too you

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can access that thing with a double semi
anything you want but people just don't

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know it so they never request that in
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rfis and that's probably something that
we need to rectify and I think that was

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part of the reason we were included in
this 17 communities as a potential high

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impact Economic Development Area because
they came down and saw what we had in

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terms of Transportation
options and we also have a rail railroad

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that runs two two
railroads so it's a matter

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of making the investment on the front
end to host those people and I don't

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mean through incentives I just mean
being able to house the business being

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able to house the manufacturing
operation or the research operation we

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don't have that
capacity yet all right okay thank you

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yeah anyone
else um several things Andrea um

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building one and we've been talking
about it for a while and the the folks

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that uh
initially put together a great plan

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financing was a problem for them are
they kind of out of the picture anymore

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no not
necessarily um those folks have a a deep

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love for that building and they're
hoping that the interest rates go down

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still the financing with them then yeah
it's still a financing issue okay the um

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airport property that you talked a
little bit about FAA and everything uh

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we need to sit down and have a little
more detailed conversation about that

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yes and then the energized conference I
appreciate you uh sharing the dollar

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figure
for our budget meetings um I did share

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with Council the
um uh email that Rachel I believe sent

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out yes uh so they were aware of some of
that information but for you to share it

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publicly that
$48,000 came into the

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community uh with a two-day conference
uh and all of that was possible by

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Council thank you for uh making the the
MU Center available at no cost and I yes

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thank you and thank you to all the city
C council members who helped me uh bring

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that together it was really very easy
and fluid and went quite smoothly so so

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she says she makes i' do it again she
makes it look

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easy and we had many many compliments on
our town on the Mueller Center people

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were shocked in the town the size of
3,800 whatever we are right now has a

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facility
that can handle this many people in

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seats with a theater venue like this
there there was nothing but compliments

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for Hot Springs we we underestimate
ourselves and that was in the midst of

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all of the construction as well
yes so again thank you um you're the the

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reason that energized conference came to
Hot Springs and thank you Council again

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for recognizing that U it it was a a
good thing to do to make theer Center

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available to have that many people come
app thank

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you thank you for everything you do
Andrea thank you thank

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you all

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right going to get a motion to approve
Personnel actions a through G I make a

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motion to approve Personnel actions a
through G second

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discussion all in favor I

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opposed the motion
passes uh can I get a motion for new

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business item a a motion to approve a
contract or contract

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20241 between Evans Plunge Mineral
Springs and Laura Barner I'll make a

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motion to approve contract 20241
between Evans plune Mineral Springs and

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Lura Barner for Fitness instruction at
the Evans Plunge mineral epms facility

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September 2024 May 2025
second

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discussion all in favor I
opposed the motion passes going to get a

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motion for new business Item B approve
and authorize the mayor to sign

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amendment number two make a motion to
approve and authorize a mayor to sign

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amendment number two to the AES I'm
sorry

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ae2s water Master Plan update agreement
first approved by Council on 1141

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1821 original agreement
$15,800 First Amendment $1

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new adjusted agreement amount
51540 to be spent I'm sorry to be paid

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paid by Future supplemental
appropriation from water fund services

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and fees 602-
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422000
second

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discussion can we get an explanation of
those amendments amendments and how we

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ended up where we

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are you have that on the top of your
head sorry well looking uh at the

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paperwork that's on the agenda or in the
packet the original

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agreement um the amount was to and Bill
steer me straight where I get off um was

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to
update uh our water master plan

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initially
yes uh and then there was uh so that

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original one was
15,800 uh there were some uh changes to

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Prior amendments for 17,7
40 uh significant change in the plan

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after a public hearing so we drastically
change the plan after public hearing on

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the matter of whether or not we were
going to drill a well it changed from

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that to wanting to pipe right okay so
that was a big

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change so this one for
18,000 um you recall a couple of meeting

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number of meetings ago when um Council
you approved um funding to do a

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distribution study throughout Hot
Springs to make sure that we had uh

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adequate size lines to get water
especially to the um Southwest side of

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town where the U Martin tract is being
developed and ideally um some homes uh

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in relation to F Health System so we're
just looking at all of the distribution

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system um and found out that we're we're
great there so the other side of that is

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um do we have capacity do we have the
supply and that's what this particular

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one is doing is um doing the necessary
work to uh design of piping layout for

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Evans uh well pumping tests so they're
going to go in and um design the the

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necessary changes to the to the piping
out there and conduct a capacity test

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from the Evans pump pumping station to
make sure we have enough water and that

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one is going to be
18,000 uh what I highlighted in the U

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the contract and design of piping layout
for Evans well pumping test provide

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proposals uh to the city of Hot Springs
with a uh

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ae2 s's
recommendations uh attend the pumping

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test and collecting data throughout the
test

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so that's what this particular
amendment's for

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and if I recall right or remind me if
I'm right um all this started because we

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wanted to be able to get on the
state's uh list

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for grants for the new um tank to store
all the water in for that part of town

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right well that that's certainly part of
it as far as the uh our water master

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plan uh identifies you know our current
condition future needs um right so all

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of this surrounds that is what got it
going we've known for a number of years

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that we need to have it updated and we
started two years ago maybe yes three

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years ago with with the initial
conversations and we're taking the

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necessary steps to get everything
wrapped up and I guess the only thing I

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would either remind Council or inform
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is this amendment is for a2s engineering
work they'll go out and they'll identify

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the contractors and such this does not
cover the actual contractor work that

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modifies the piping so that the pumping
test can be conducted so there will be

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another
charge

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once they have done their work or part
of their

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work so we're spending a lot of money up
front just to be on a list to get grants

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um and for a plan we can't build
anything if we don't know what we need

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to
build it's a very necessary the water

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the water master plan is is is a
critical document for us

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to to do anything as and we have to have
grants to do anything we can't build a

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one or two or three million gallon tank
on our own so that would be mostly

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funded from uh by grants and so we can't
even apply for those grants until this

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water master plan is updated and we've
got to have this

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information because this would likely be
the water source to fill that new

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tank so yes it's
uh I guess it's our water reality yeah

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and Travis as you were asking about you
know why can't U developers just come to

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Hot Springs and you know begin throwing
up uh homes without grants uh this is

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the one thing that they're asking the
city about is if we come here and we

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want to put up 10 15 20 homes in a
Development Area do you have the

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utilities uh necessary to support those
those homes um we know that uh sewer

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wise we're fine we found out with the
last distribution study we're fine there

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uh we just need to make sure that we can
put enough water into the into the lines

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this is all necessary to assure develop
ERS that uh if you want to come here we

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can meet your

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needs any other
questions all in favor I

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opposed the motion
passes can I get a motion to approve the

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business item C approve and authorize
the city administrator to sign the

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Engineering Services
proposal I make a motion to approve and

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authorize the city administrator to sign
the engineering Services proposal from

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West Plains engineering Inc to provide
mechanical and electrical Design

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Services for a propane generator at the
wastewater treatment facility for a

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fixed rate of
$9,750 to be paid by Future supplemental

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appropriation Wastewater fund services
and fees 64-

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second
discussion Bill JR could you kind of

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give us an update on this please yeah
uh actually these next two items I'm

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going to speak to at once if I
can the if you recall when um the uh not

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Parish sorry
flashback uh County Emergency manager

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has come and talked to us several times
about the county pre- disaster

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mitigation plan that's where a team of
people go through and they identify the

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major hazards facing the county as a
whole and communities

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specifically for at least the last two
of those pred disaster mitigation

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plans emergency power generation for
critical facilities has been on that

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and we are finally making progress
on getting grants to install those

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generators and so this is the first step
to install an emergency uh backup

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generator for both the hot Brook pumping
station and the wastewater treatment

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facility uh if you're wondering why hot
Brook versus Evans Plunge pumping

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station uh hot Brook pumping St
actually fills the 2 million gallon tank

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which can then gravity feed the 1
million gallon tank so if

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we as a region suffer a significant
power outage that would be the best

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place to to have emergency power to
maintain pumping capacity to keep our

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tanks
fill um I'm looking at Misty cuz what

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I'm about to say may or may not be
correct

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typically the grants for these types of
things whether it's a Homeland Security

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Grant or uh something else through the
state is typically at

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90% I thought they were 80 20 or 5050 I
think it depend I think they're at least

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80%
and what I'm about to say I'm kind of

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guessing at is this engineering study
can count as uh

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what's the term payment in kind or
service some contribution yeah anyway

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this could go this engineering study
could probably be used as part of our

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percentage for the actual installation
Grant that's an assumption and a guess

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and a hope and because it is just a plan
this yeah this is just being proposed or

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again just engineer PL not
any and if I remember correct you are

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right it is a
20 if I remember correctly and

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so you know these are not cheap pieces
equipment I I wish we could go down and

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buy a
uh a pull start generator with a plugin

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but this is you know installing new
switch gear and the tanks and the

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foundations and so there is a lot of
engineering that goes into it I was

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concerned with how long the plans were
good for knowing what we're facing in

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these two funds
and they're good not forever I mean t

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out with it but for a good long time so
if we can't get to these projects

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because you don't get the first round
grant funding or something um