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manually read their water meters until i
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um we get i'm not kidding when we get
phone calls

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every billing cycle people are
complaining about reading their water

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meters
it's it's a huge complaint and there's

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some people that
they can't get to it and it you know

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then they want us to come out and read
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and so we're looking for a
auto read system where we would have

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like a handheld system in our vehicles
and our public works department would

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drive around to collect all of the water
meter readings um you know the same day

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every month
um we believe that this would be

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more accurate we know that there's
probably people that aren't reading

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their meter right
on accident or potentially on purpose um

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we're not getting timely water meter
readings we're not getting them at all

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we have some accounts where we haven't
received a water meter reading in almost

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a year
and you know we call them we send them

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letters and they still don't get back to
us so we're estimating and

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it's just not good for anybody it's
really difficult to collect what we're

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supposed to be collecting and
um so part of this rfp is we're looking

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for a turnkey solution
we want compatibility with our existing

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software which is banyan we don't want
to have to switch up our software as

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well
we've talked to a couple water meter

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suppliers
and those two have both said that their

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systems would work with ours
so we're hoping to get more interest in

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this project
and that hopefully more people can work

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with our system
we want quality and warranty

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and future maintenance and operations
we i included in the rfp a potential

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timeline that we're going to be looking
at

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so we would release this you know as
soon as we post it as soon as tomorrow

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but it wouldn't hit the newspaper until
next friday

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um we want to have questions from
the potential suppliers back to us by

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april 2nd
we would supply answers to those

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questions by april 9th
um so on and so forth we would want to

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bring
whoever we select or whoever we agree

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upon
back to city council in may and

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i put august as a potential deployment
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we aren't sure how quickly i mean it
could be june it could be august it

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could maybe december we don't know what
that's looking like yet

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um

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discussing this with other communities
that have done the same

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you get a really wide range of proposals
and there's really good and bad in that

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so there's some different vendors that
are from out of state that come in with

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really attractive prices
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likewise there's some people that we
know locally that we already do business

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with but we know that they're the most
expensive product

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so doing this really levels the playing
field and gives equal consideration to

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each one of those vendors
for you guys to make a fair and right

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decision

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what happens during the billing cycle
though when people

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i mean do you anticipate people calling
and disputing

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the auto read just as much as they're
complaining about

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having to read or we think that there's
gonna be some hiccups at the beginning

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um mostly because we i mean
we we have people that are reporting

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that they're only using maybe
400 gallons a month i mean maybe you are

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if it's a single person
and you know whatever maybe you are i

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don't know but
so it might be those people that are

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like my bill has never been this high
but it could be because they're reading

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their meter on um
but i think it might be the opposite way

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too that people's
readings are gonna be more accurate

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maybe you know we don't we don't know
what we don't know on all these water

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meters some of them are 40 plus years
old

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and i think that you know maybe we would
see some people's bills go down

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and and we know we know we've seen it
bills go down because we have so many

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accounts that we estimate month after
month

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and we're estimating what we're
estimating we can't

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you know we can't cut down the number
you know we have to estimate what we

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have to estimate
and i know we had somebody who had a

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water leak in like
this is just an example in november and

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then they did not give us a water meter
reading

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so they had like 27 000 gallons in
november then they proceeded to not give

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us a water meeting
water meter reading december january

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so december january they were getting
billed for 27 000

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gallons because we had to estimate based
off the month before

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and this i mean this would be a huge
i think this would be super helpful for

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a lot of people and
we wouldn't be charging people the

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twenty dollar no read fee
and people calling and disputing that

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all the time
and i think that

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is

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yeah so i think jason i think even
taking that a step further

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software will have glitches there'll be
glitches in transition

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that sort of thing but that being said
the software and auto read meters

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takes out a large opportunity for human
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we also get readings as frequently as we
ask for them

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so that could be as frequent as hourly
or as often as we need to have the crew

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go out to do manual
like catch the readings frankly i think

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it will be much
harder to dispute their readings and

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their bill
once this is complete not to mention the

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fact that
we're requiring humans with human error

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capacity to give us a reading
and for us to accurately put it into our

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software as well
so i think this is by far a step in the

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right direction
two of the vendors that we also talked

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to showed us how their software works
and it stores data for you know one of

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them was like 30 days
one of them was six months and it stores

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data for that long so we can go back if
we do

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multiple times a week just drive around
and collect data we have that data

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stored for multiple months so we could
potentially catch if somebody's having a

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water leak you know they had
this many gallons at this point in the

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month but all of a sudden
they're at twenty thousand and we're

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like well something happened between
these ten days

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something happened just maybe would you
fill a pool you know we can determine

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what happened
but it'll also tell us if a meter goes

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offline for some reason
so we'll know that you know something's

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not reading it's not reading right and
it'll tell us that it's not reading

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right
so and they're ready

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so we're opening this up to be eligible
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radio and for a dedicated signal
that's one of the reasons why we're

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doing a best value proposal system
they will need to show us what system

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works for the value
based on the warranty as well so right

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now to the vendors that we've talked to
most frequently

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one uses the radio read the other uses
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signal and there's a big difference
in price what kind of signal is it so

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the the kind of generic radio read
signal is like on the open frequency

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like it's a regular like literal public
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the other one is a proprietary signal
that the company

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bought that's just for that signal so
it's like a laser beam

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from their product to their software
which is great in our business right

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and in this case that company has been
around for like 60 years or something

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has been around about that long if not
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i mean it seems to make more sense to go
with something that isn't proprietary

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because then
you know if you're unhappy with your

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service provider it's a radio frequency
red meter at least

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so what we're looking for tonight is
just approval of actually going out to

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start this
process it looks like by megan's

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schedule
the next time this would be in front of

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you would be may 18th to actually
approve a project and i think at that

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time it wouldn't be
unreasonable to even bring in these

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vendors since you know they're people
that are going to be working hard around

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town for an extended period of time
yeah because the neighborhood

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we're not doing that ourselves again
we've structured this to be open either

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way
i've heard some good horror stories of

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hiring one company to do it all
and i've also heard horror stories of

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not so that's just some of the questions
that we'd go through in the interview

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process
but oftentimes we would hire just say

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company
a and they would likely find local subs

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to do the physical install
anyway um which was i think what both

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vendors
said that they would likely do

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yes as jason and meyer come up i'll just
kind of introduce this

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um quickly i apologize for the late ad
we worked really hard over the last

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few days and weeks to make sure that the
numbers we're giving you

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are accurate and solid
and so that we would have the confidence

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to basically say hey this pay increase
is not only

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justified and needed to staff but we can
back it with the performance of the

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store
so what you have in front of you again

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meyer and jason will address but it is
an increase to part-time wages

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as well as the consultant agreement take
it away gang

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wonderful thank you hello mr mayor and
counselors good evening

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i am here tonight to propose a part-time
staff wage increase um excuse me

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currently part-time
employees number one let me back up one

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second i'm here to ensure
attract and retain talented public

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servants that's what i'm doing here
today

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our proposed increase is hourly wage of
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per hour i would also kindly ask you
to entertain the additional

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consideration of
having what we would call a shift lead

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or someone who could
um we've consistently been experiencing

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and of course not surprising both my
staff currently and their second or

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a shift lead with extra responsibilities
with an added compensate compensation of

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1466 per hour
thank you very much so iron can you just

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accordingly so uh
what types of things are you either not

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able to get to
because of covering the pressure

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this would be the person who would
absolutely cover anything

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downstairs if i was to be upstairs and
as rentals begin to happen

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i find myself doing more bookings tours
um and

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contact with with that in the social
events and respects as well

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um it's very hard for me to be at the
store

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alone solo honestly until two or three
in the afternoon anymore

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we're just so busy we're so much busier
than we ever have been

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and i'm so happy for that um but i find
myself kind of swirling some of these

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so having someone who can cover myself
and even me just taking a vacation

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and having a few days of time off
honestly to be honest um currently have

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no one
to cover day shifts for me at this point

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and so this would be someone that could
definitely take off a few extra

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responsibilities not just opening and
closing

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as all part-time staff do but someone
could actually make a decision and

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what i would do in in particular um
instances as far as like deliveries and

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just the daily
ordering processes and things contact

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with jason and things like that
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yes or actually it would be nice to have
that person on saturdays as well

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to be to be another support on the
weekends but i believe capping at 30

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hours
um for what we would ask

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getting to with the current structure
there's not an assistant manager so

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there's not a whole lot of
in-house redundancy if she's worked to

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be gone
take a vacation be sick so this person

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would be
you know we're kind of shift lead

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because we're not going to make like
another full-time position but they

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would have responsibilities similar to
myra's life

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we would have the appropriate
conversation right

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you've actually choose your backup for
those decisions i mean

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you know

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even things like just off the top like
an example oh that

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that person would know if something came
wrong or we could really bring that back

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or you know return things or just keep
it very smooth

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on a day-to-day basis if it wasn't there
knowing

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those type of other um kind of
operations what we do what would i do

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daily
i know you're going to open that up

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applicants or i mean
is this somebody

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but if we need to i am actually
currently hiring as well so

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do you think that keeping it open is
winner

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well i mean you know look around town
i mean you're competing for part-time

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help from
every other business entitlement hires

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part-time employees and
you know some of those probably have

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better hours you know
so it's a little bit more attractive for

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people so you're kind of competing with
those things you can change too

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so um i mean it makes sense

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again i apologize for the late ad but so
we attempted to kind of do like our own

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mini salary study with this too
we would be at the higher end of

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part-time retail
in howard lake but if you do like the

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similar for
liquor stores if you use the metro mexi

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metro metric we're down by like five
bucks or something crazy

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if you use the out state one we're right
in line once we do

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this adjustment meyer and i have been
doing

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a lot of interviews the last couple of
months and i think

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you know this increase would help retain
some good employment we've had some good

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ones
around the last couple months find

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anything
a couple of dollars

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whatever you know people from
dazzle or potato or we just have

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makes it a little bit easier to say i'm
going to drive out there for

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sure you know 13 and a half dollars an
hour rather than

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11. right right
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yes they would need a motion oh i
thought we're gonna do it all together

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yeah one motion for everything else what
are we talking about

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um jason oh yeah absolutely we could do
that i'm sorry i thought i kind of went

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over that so this would take his
monthly engagement from 700 to a

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thousand okay
um and again just a reminder under the

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current proposal with jason specifically
we both both sides have a 30-day opt-out

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so if jason said
pound sand howard lake or howard lake

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said pound sand there's a 30-day
notification period to that

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um i'm not good with words so
we would like megan

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yeah so again jason's been doing great
kind of doing the grand overseeing

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czar of operations helping us with
buying specifically

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um we're still kind of fine-tuning
making sure that he's spending some time

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in-house as well
collectively these two have just been

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kicking butt for the store and our
numbers show it

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so and this consulting agreement is with
you personally not

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with the city of bubble right is that
that's correct

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we still have a separate enforced gpa
right

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uh but really that's more informed at
this point when the meat and potatoes of

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that agreement was about
myron jason right and now when we

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brought myra back with coven
that's when we readjusted that

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consultant well that's more about the
buying power

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too

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okay

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i i mean the the the well the that net
or that increase of

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16 uh i mean i think it's set in here
the

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the total cost consequence how does that
sit with

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where we're projecting all i mean i know
we know what we did last

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year but it sounds like we're still
projecting to keep

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things going so that's right beautiful
question jason that's exactly why

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the next item talks about the budget i'm
just going to do a sneak preview with

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this we've included the wages
jason and i have all but beat the hell

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out of each other
on how we come up with assumptions and

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projections
and we're still showing a net profit

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in 2021 of 99 000 thousand dollars
mind you last year was phenomenal and

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that was about 85 i think 85 or 87
somewhere in that neighborhood um so

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this shows like a modest increase from
that which

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we're learning we're fine-tuning there's
lumps and bumps but again

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that includes that additional wage okay
so

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and assuming when you model that out you
factor your powers

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over time yes because i mean
you know a little bit of over overtime

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she to her point she was getting
too much overtime and i think myra for

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being the william soldier that she is
that at a moment's notice when someone

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calls him sick
frankly it's meyer that has to fill that

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shift and that leads to overtime but
that has a cost consequence

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so again part of that a lot of other
non-costs

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yeah so a big part of this is like that
overall ecosystem hopefully we get

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more part-time help we're paying them
better they stick around they do their

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part but we're also
compensating for that that in return

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um but we're also saying myro this is a
spreadsheet that we're using to track

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your hours for part-time this is a
spreadsheet that we're using to track

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your hours um so there's accountability
built into that

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absolutely i'm also ready to be to do
evaluations

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as well so start part-time evaluations
for everyone

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scheduled already so this is kind of
a little off topic but when you have a

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turnover i mean what would you say is
the reason do you think people

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i mean obviously it's it's part-time
employment there's always going to be

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some turnover right because people just
leave but

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you know i mean do you think the pay is
a factor do you think it's just kind of

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a broad spectrum of reasons that i can't
really um sometimes it's the pain

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um i would say because other people they
say oh i got a little bit more going

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over here
you know taking that raise

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um sometimes it's your family or other
things um

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sometimes they're like i don't need
three jobs

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so there's every type of situation
and this is the easiest one for us to

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control i mean if it's not working
conditions or

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you know hours or you know management
right

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management customers i can see her
staff when this goes into yeah

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i did actually yes yep three
actually yes but still looking for one

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or three

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yeah okay

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i'll make a motion is there

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okay this
is you know forecasting is the hardest

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part of this job and
and last year with kovid it made it just

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almost impossible

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enough water water's been under the
bridge here for the first couple months

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of the year
we've got a pretty good idea of how the

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year is going to look i think
going forward um and the big thing was

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was
covid you know was this a bubble that we

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went through
and i think it probably is not and it's

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because we're seeing a lot of
um consistency in terms of week to week

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sales and um
you know this coming week that we're in

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right now is the week that everything
blew up last year

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and we had that massive week of panic
buying and you know we're not going to

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have that again
but you know as i i mean it's crazy

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i look at these days that was a huge day
so that was great for last year but for

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this year you know obviously we've got a
bigger hill to climb

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you know when we're looking at these
numbers so where

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what i did was i took our current
um growth rate of about 20 year-to-date

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and i looked out a little bit ahead and
um

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you know this week we're never going to
hit that number of this is a 28 29 000

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sales week we've been we've been
hovering in the 17

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000 range since the first of the year so
we're right now 20 percent ahead we've

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got this hill we're gonna you know we're
cruising out soon we're gonna hit we're

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not gonna make it over this week
but after this week we go back to about

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18 000
as far as last year's numbers and then

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the campers come
so right i figured let's look at 10

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growth for the year because it still
shows significant growth which i think

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is going to happen here
um but it's not over the top you know

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so uh well by the time i did that i just
added ten percent onto all the sales

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categories
uh we are going to be giving away less

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money this year
in the area of discounts so the loyalty

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program's gone

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have you had any backlash on that has
there been i mean i'm sure right away

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there was some but a little bit
um people were excited about our holiday

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um
giveaway type of thing where you put

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your little see i'd like to do that more
often maybe even just twice a year

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maybe fourth of july or even once early
just put a big

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pandemic anniversary absolutely you
don't put something up nice yes

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we made it we should have really done
that up this week oh no

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um but i think that they like that as
well

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so winning things and i think we can
yeah in respects of doing that keeping

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loyal customers
so every time they come in they still

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drop that receipt in and they're going
to and you took receipts from the other

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businesses in town too which i i mean
that's a really nice touch

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thank you you know that's yeah thank you
kind of pull it out together

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so sorry i interrupted it but yes so
it's essentially just kind of breaking

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things down for a 10 growth rate for
for sales same thing with cost of sales

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and
um it works out to about a 28 gross

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profit
which is a little ambitious but i like

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having to you know reach for things
and uh then adding the 160 000

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in wages here which is um kind of been
the the biggest struggle

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with the whole thing um as far as
expenses you know everything else is

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ticked up a smidge um as expected for
year-over-year increases um so we we're

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looking at a
potential profit of around was it 100

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000
uh for for the year which is in line

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with
my historical returns of you know around

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10 ish percent over uh
total sales so optimistically

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that's where we're at and i feel pretty
solid that this is

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as good a projection as i can possibly
give

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given the what i know right now about
how the year is going to pan out

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and right and life going forward
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and we also expect some extra revenue to
come in from the event center

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that's kind of a big question mark there
um we're getting to yeah we we

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we got extra business from bars last
year being closed

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but we also lost a lot of business from
what's music festival

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absolutely women's stuff good
neighborhoods

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yeah all the other things they're
excited so i'm not that's why i'm

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confident that
you know we're we're there's only enough

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business to get to
one and a half ish million you know in

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this town i
think that that's logistically where

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it's gonna realistically that's where
it's gonna be at

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and we're 80 of the way there yeah you
know as it is right now so

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and when you talk about added revenue
from the events that i mean

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we're talking because of beer and liquor
sales at those events

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obviously the rental fee because we made
that correct

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and it's separate from the liquor
operation budget as well right and i was

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going to ask about that because we don't
have to keep them together we

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okay it is a yes that goes to general
fund correct yeah

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so it does have a couple weddings booked
for

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fall so that's exciting and hopefully
they get to

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stay on yeah we just we just postponed
for the second time now so

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oh so hopefully fall is still good for
people

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yeah but notice that to jason's point
we're being conservative so there's no

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revenue
anticipated for cell shield yeah which

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that's good
yeah i mean at the same time you

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probably don't have any expenses
anticipate either that might happen if

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you get some used so
sorry oh that's okay i was just curious

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about um it seemed like everything
through covid in this last 12 months

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that the
demand on certain products became so

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great that the prices all rose and we're
still seeing that like right now steel

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is crazy steel is of 30
40 50 since december but right how

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has has it affected the cost of
the goods at all in the last 12 months

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what is what's the cost is it just been
flat the whole time or

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no pretty much i haven't seen a lot of
increases you've been switching over to

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some of these facilities and making hand
sanitizer

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right right yeah great well a lot of
those podcasts

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right black is all about fairy tales you
can make it today and sell tomorrow and

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charge whatever you do

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pretty easy

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for that blood to be spilling no normal
model beer increases

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you know twice annually usually now so
beer increases at least

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annually and now it just did as well so
there was more supply issues that we ran

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into
a lot of canning issues there's an

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aluminum shortage as well right now sure
um and people don't want bottles

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sometimes so
yeah yeah okay they're they're choosing

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other you know um
products margarita next was in short

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supply yep it's right now
tonic water gone forever that was fine

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was

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and now that will be an everyday
selection so that's wonderful

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all year round

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okay so you're asking that we approve
this budget is that what's happening

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here
yes please

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well counsel anything else for jason and
myra

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all right we will entertain a motion
then

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we have emotions there a second we have
a motion and a second any further

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discussion from the council happy
birthday

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all those in favor signify saying aye

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thank you good evening yeah
good job guys have a good night guys

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all right enemy consider approving
quotes for installation of carpet at

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city hall
yes so included on a 2021 cip

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we have carpeting here at city hall
we sought quotes the low quote was floor

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value of howard lake at 16
and basically that would provide carpet

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tiles
for every piece of carpet within

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eyesight
you can look around you're starting to

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see seams stains
um looking back at the specs i had to do

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that for something else we actually
bought 10-year carpet and we're at about

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15 now so it's just
one of them things yeah it's looking

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pretty worn yeah
and it was exciting to see um we i think

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we ended up like with four or five
quotes and it was nice to see that

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floor value right out of town here was
the local yeah that is nice

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so so that's everywhere right back front
the one area that it doesn't include is

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the police department just because
there's

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so much stuff back there to move and get
around

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um congrats yeah yeah
well they're just sardines in there um

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but otherwise it's the i.t
conference room console chambers

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reception admin
um hallways and that sort of thing

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okay yeah
all right we will entertain a motion

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we have emotions there a second a second
we have a motion and a second ending for

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the discussion from the council
all those in favor signify by saying aye

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aye closed
motion carries item k there's no old

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business
administrators report anything else to

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report to us nicholas uh no thank you
okay then we will entertain a motion to

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adjourn
we have emotions there second second

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promotion and a second ending for the
discussion from the council

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all those in favor signify by saying aye
opposed

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meeting adjourned