[0:05] I aliance to the flag of the United
States of America and to the republic
[0:11] for which it stands. One nation under
God, indivisible with liberty and
[0:17] justice for all.
[0:23] » Roll call. Bowman
>> here.
[0:27] » Epson Kramer
>> here.
[0:29] » Boston
>> here.
[0:30] » Hook
>> here.
[0:32] » Okay.
Approval of February 20 3rd, 2026
[0:38] agenda. Do we have a motion?
Move.
[0:43] » All in favor?
>> I.
[0:46] » All oppose.
Motion carried.
[0:52] Approval of consent agenda.
We have a motion.
[0:57] » Second.
>> All in favor?
[1:01] » All oppose.
[1:05] » Motion carried. I don't have any
comments or commendations. We're going
[1:10] to go to citizens request and oral
presentation. Uh we don't have anybody
[1:14] here who would like to speak that signed
in, but I would like to uh offer that
[1:19] right now. If somebody would like to
speak uh have got three minutes and
[1:23] please raise.
All right.
[1:28] Thank you. Let's move with uh general
government.
[1:33] We are going to do a resolution calendar
to approve all them. Uh but before we do
[1:41] with the
item A, the resolution 3429
[1:48] for the approval of the 2026 2031 police
department union contract. We have not
[1:55] received the final draft from the uh
union rep. So I would like to make a
[2:02] motion uh to remove item A from that
calendar. Uh that resolution calendar.
[2:09] So do we have a motion? I'll make that
motion.
[2:13] » Second.
>> Roll call.
[2:16] » Framer.
>> Hi.
[2:20] » Hi.
>> Bowman.
[2:21] » Hi.
Item A removed.
[2:28] So we do have four resolutions in that
calendar from B, C, D, and E.
[2:36] Um,
[2:40] do we have a motion to
second?
[2:46] » Roll call.
>> Lawson.
[2:48] » Hi.
>> Cook.
[2:49] » Hi.
>> Bowman.
[2:50] » Hi.
>> Kramer.
[2:51] » Hi.
>> Rick.
[2:56] Next item on the agenda. Presentation of
the officer of the year award to Tyler
[3:00] Shom, Chief Banks.
[3:07] Well, thank you mayor council for
putting on the agenda. Um be the first
[3:12] officer of year award for the police
department. Um
[3:17] um last year um I think we can all say
as a city um collectively it was a hard
[3:24] year all of us and um losing three
officers um was definitely hard
[3:31] on schedule and morale and um
officer S
[3:38] um I would say never
never lost that I think he's kind of
[3:44] been my anchor
um when I needed somebody to talk to,
[3:47] but Officer Song, he does work our third
shift, which many of you guys probably
[3:50] haven't seen him before. Um
he's out of sight on mine.
[3:55] Unfortunately, he's not with me. Um he
works Friday, Saturday, Sundays. If you
[4:02] ask what our schedule's like, um it's
all over the board. Um Officer Ka works
[4:08] a kind of a odd schedule.
uh third shift. So then officer Som
[4:14] takes up the last three days which is
Friday, Saturday and Sunday. So I
[4:17] applaud him for picking up that shift
because it's a weekend. Um a lot of us
[4:21] like to enjoy our fun time on the
weekend. So I applaud for doing that. So
[4:26] when Officer S is on call or when he's
working on a Friday, Saturday, Sunday,
[4:31] um I'm planning my phone to go off in
the middle of the night. Um he is very
[4:36] proactive. Um he spends a lot of time
researching and reading on drug cases
[4:43] and drug law. So if we ever have a
question on drug law, we go to officers.
[4:49] Um
through 2025, I just give you a little
[4:53] rough sketch of what he has done. Um
several marijuana arrest. Um got six
[4:59] here. Couple meth um two meth arrests,
one cocaine. Um several paraphernalia
[5:05] and one seized firearm. On top of that,
several OBVIS, couple domestics, and
[5:11] what the city and council does
understand, officer S does a lot outside
[5:15] the city of Hudson. Um, he assists,
state patrol, world police department,
[5:21] blockout county, and does a lot of work
for the drug task force. That's a lot of
[5:25] information um I cannot share with you
and what he does, but he's definitely an
[5:30] asset to not just the city of Hudson,
but to
[5:35] the county as a whole.
So, being this is first year, um I think
[5:43] of something
to keep our morale up in PD. We have a
[5:48] great team at the PD. Um we lost to good
officers.
[5:53] We fought through it.
And I think eventually as a city as a
[5:57] whole, we'll get better. Um, but so
I'm not going to sit here and um
[6:05] I don't know what word to say, but um I
just wanted to recognize officer song
[6:09] for the hard work he has done, not just
for the city and not for the police
[6:13] department, but just for the county as a
whole. And I think this um award is
[6:18] welld deserved. Um,
I just I can't wait till there's weekend
[6:24] that my phone does not go off
so I can enjoy maybe a cocktail or two.
[6:32] Um, but um I tell you this song has um
encountered
[6:38] um
I would say about six five to six um
[6:43] incidents that um I have talked to him
about to maybe go see a therapist on. um
[6:50] for being as young as he is in his
field, he has encountered some some
[6:54] tragic events. Um
as his boss, I I kind of worry about,
[6:59] but um he does have a good support
system, not just the PD, but outside the
[7:05] PD. Um so um so we can get going here.
Um
[7:13] I appreciate Jeffy. Um,
[7:20] I just, you know, keep it short and
sweet. Keep up the good work and I try
[7:25] not to use my right hand on your report
as much as possible
[7:29] » by any
>> and um I think he keeps DCI lab and in
[7:33] Iowa pretty busy too with processing his
progress. So first this award goes to
[7:38] the first ever in um I think by Hudson
PD history and with me being here
[7:44] officer your award goes to officer.
[7:57] » Thanks Danny.
>> Thank you chief. Thank you officer. We
[8:01] appreciate your work. Good job.
[8:06] Hopefully Danny's going to get a picture
and you got that Danny.
[8:10] » Yeah. Well, I want to get a better one
so I can see the award. But I did get
[8:14] some.
>> Perfect.
[8:16] All right.
Moving forward with the the agenda. Um
[8:21] item seven, discussion, possible
actions. Set the date of budget
[8:25] workshop.
We have a motion.
[8:29] » Well, it's a discussion discuss, right?
Uh
[8:34] like we talked about in our special
session, we would like to sit down with
[8:40] all department heads and go over our uh
departmental budgets so we can finalize
[8:49] our budget for ne next uh fiscal year
and and get that submitted to this to
[8:55] the state. Uh what March, beginning of
March,
[8:58] » I need to have the levy. We need to have
that
[9:01] » approve. So I have until March 5th
Thursday. So
[9:08] » So could we
uh schedule another special meeting?
[9:12] » We have public safety on the 26th this
coming Thursday. Otherwise, we don't
[9:19] have any any
booked. So
[9:24] what time is public safety?
four.
[9:29] » So we could do one after everybody's
>> scheduled. The only reason I suggest
[9:34] that I'm I leave for Florida for a
couple days for work next week. So like
[9:39] if we can get
>> the most material stuff in this week.
[9:44] You guys know I'm going to ask a million
questions. So
[9:47] » yeah, just get with me maybe beforehand
so I can have
[9:51] » easier for me to have to have advanced
notice so I can answer those questions
[9:55] in this and not have to search for
>> Can can we get the materials
[10:01] like
tomorrow?
[10:05] » We can definitely
Yes. We'll have to decide what this is
[10:10] all going to tell. Are we going to do
just levy rate or are we going to start
[10:13] working budget stuff? Then we'll have to
figure out which departments we're doing
[10:17] and who needs to be there.
>> I got the Matt's not here. I don't want
[10:20] to speak for him, but I got the sense
that
[10:24] » we need an increased tax levy
and frankly I feel the same way. We need
[10:30] to offset that with
>> a reasonable budget. Um, so I don't know
[10:38] that we can do one without the other,
but
[10:41] » I'd say do both
>> at at a minimum we should see the the
[10:46] numbers.
>> Yeah.
[10:48] So, is that possible by Thursday?
>> Oh, 100%.
[10:51] » But but let's just
>> let's walk out of there Thursday knowing
[10:55] that Julie's got to have a tax levy.
>> Correct. because we can have as many
[10:59] special meetings between now and March
30th or excuse me, April 30th as we want
[11:05] to nail down budget.
>> Yeah. And maybe
[11:08] » the levy conversation is going to be a
long one. Then maybe we just plan on
[11:11] that and then start planning by
departments.
[11:14] » Yeah. Maybe like the the levies that you
gave us last week were helpful that
[11:19] other cities have. Um Danny did a nice
article in the Herald about that. But,
[11:25] um, I'd be interested to see if we set
we're at like
[11:33] whatever levy we are today.
What does that budget look like? And
[11:38] then you had proposed
like something else. What does that look
[11:43] like? And then what are a couple options
in between? So then we can see what
[11:48] target we're trying to hit.
[11:51] Meaning if we don't touch it, what's our
budget?
[11:55] » Just like a few options like I don't
know if what is it 11 or something like
[12:00] that today?
>> Yeah,
[12:01] » it's at like basically 11 today.
You were suggesting that in order to hit
[12:07] our budget, we're going to need at like
14 something.
[12:11] I see the 11. I see the 14. I don't know
what that means in terms of like how
[12:17] much money this town spends a year,
>> right? And I can have that that formula
[12:21] because I do I have done it. I just
don't you know remember tax formulas.
[12:27] » No, no, just like before when we have
those discussions like that'd be
[12:31] helpful. Like I
>> agree.
[12:32] » I don't know what 12 and 13 would look
like versus 14.
[12:36] » Right.
>> And
[12:37] what then does Danny have to cut? What
does Jake have to cut? Right.
[12:42] » Right.
>> Right. And I think that we need to
[12:44] decide the levy, you know, this week. So
then I have it in. It won't be voted on
[12:49] until after the 25th of March, but it
has to be in so that the county can get
[12:55] it out um in letters. So technically the
decision is made before it's voted on.
[13:01] » Um
[13:04] » we're all saying Thursday, too.
>> Thursday at like can we get the
[13:09] department heads on Thursday? Are
>> they
[13:14] good?
>> Well, okay. Chief,
[13:16] » we're talking levy. Are we talking
budget, too?
[13:19] » Because if we're only talking levy, I
don't know know need to know if we need
[13:23] the department heads. But if we're going
to go in budget breakdown or budget
[13:26] ideas, then we need department heads.
>> I'd like to understand what's in the
[13:30] budget like what's in the proposals.
>> So, we need the department heads.
[13:34] » I think dig into the budget
>> just surface level.
[13:40] » That I think the sooner we can start the
better it is.
[13:42] » Yeah. Um, after last year's chaotic
mess, I think we're better to get ahead
[13:48] of it.
>> Yeah.
[13:49] » And and know where we're at and spend a
few times at it than just shooting from
[13:54] the hip.
>> Yeah. And we're already a little late in
[13:56] into the calendar, which we'll do better
next year. I know the last council
[14:01] didn't want to,
which I understand, didn't want to dive
[14:05] into it. Wait for
>> I'm not opposed to a Saturday afternoon
[14:08] if we have to.
>> I love giving my weekends up for
[14:13] But I mean,
>> I mean, you get more done in an
[14:18] afternoon. Feel better about being here
for four hours than on evening.
[14:23] » So,
>> so I'm I'm good for Thursday at 5. I got
[14:27] to be at the Baja County Emergency
Management Meeting from 3 to 4:30, but
[14:32] afterwards, I'm I'm good.
>> Just tell me when to be here. I'm
[14:36] retired.
>> Five o'clock. on Thursday.
[14:42] » You don't have an excuse either. You're
>> I'm already here four
[14:47] hour ahead of you.
>> Aren't we cancelling the public safety
[14:50] at 4 then or no
meeting?
[14:53] » Okay. Still do.
>> Yeah.
[14:55] » Yeah. I think we'll have enough time to
get
[14:59] » four safety and then five will be our
>> I need a motion to
[15:04] » we have a motion to schedule the
>> I'll make a motion we schedule this
[15:13] workshop
>> workshop for determining levy rates etc
[15:17] at 5:00 this Thursday second
all in favor I
[15:24] all
>> oppose
[15:26] Motion carried.
[15:40] » All right.
Next item. A request from police chief
[15:44] to attend the FBI CJIS
working group meeting March 3rd to 5th,
[15:51] 2026
in Pixport, Pennsylvania. The FBI will
[15:56] arrange all travel and reimbursement uh
reimburse the city for all associated
[16:01] expenses.
Um
[16:03] » is there anything that they're not going
to reimburse?
[16:06] » It's 100% reimburse. It's no cost to the
city. Um I just give them the receipts.
[16:10] They they paid for it already. I've got
to book a hotel room on a city card and
[16:16] then once I come back all the receipts
then they reimburse.
[16:21] » I know you put it in the in the request
but you give me like a short description
[16:26] of what what this count what this uh
>> I don't know if I I wrote a little
[16:33] synopsis of what it is. Back in uh May
of 2025, um I got nominated to be on
[16:39] this board. The the prior
successor whatever was the chief of
[16:44] independence. He retired. He now led me
to take his position. The FBI CEUS board
[16:50] is basically CEUS is the criminal
justice information um service that we
[16:56] use on a daily basis that um
we get our information from. you know,
[17:03] stolen stolen cars, stolen guns, wanted
people, driver's license, criminal
[17:08] history, etc. like that. So, I'm new to
this. I mean, I'm new to the sieges, but
[17:12] I'm new to this board. So, I'm kind of
interested on my role.
[17:17] » Okay.
>> Um, I am the only representative for the
[17:20] state of Iowa. They pick 50 out of 50
states to do this.
[17:24] » So, um, whatever I learn, I come back
and I take it to the chief's association
[17:28] board, um, which is on next on the
agenda. But um
[17:32] » what's the term that you'll serve? Do
you know?
[17:35] » Don't know. It's a I go twice a year. Um
that's all I know. I don't think there's
[17:40] a term until I guess if I want to get
the seat out. So um I just thought it's
[17:46] I was um
I'm blessed to be nominated to this and
[17:50] then you know in any career to get get
on a board or you know increase your
[17:55] knowledge is um
>> good recognition. recognition not just
[17:59] for state of Ohio, also for the city of
Hudson, too.
[18:02] » So,
>> and that's my understanding and what I
[18:05] read that no overtime will be paid in
your absence.
[18:07] » Nope. Um, Officer Paul's back. I don't
know if you guys know that. I wrote an
[18:11] email a long time ago that he back.
>> He better.
[18:14] » Yep, he's back. Um, so that definitely
helps our schedule. So, he's covering
[18:19] all my shifts while I'm away.
>> Okay. Okay. Motion that we move forward
[18:25] with it. I'll
>> second. And then uh you're living out of
[18:30] I forgot Cedar Rapids, correct? So you
driving personal vehicle to
[18:35] » do you guys take personal or use
>> We can
[18:39] » use the city.
>> Seems workrelated to me.
[18:43] » Work related.
>> Okay.
[18:47] » All right. Um so you made a motion,
Jeff.
[18:51] » Yes, sir.
>> Thank you. I second that's second.
[18:56] » All in favor?
>> I.
[18:59] » All oppose.
Motion carried. Approving chief uh chief
[19:04] of police request to attend this working
group meeting.
[19:07] » Thank you.
[19:12] Next item, requests uh from police chief
to attend the 39th annual IPCA training
[19:18] conference May 11 uh to the 21st of this
year.
[19:25] » May 18th, sorry, to the 21st. And this
one is in
[19:29] » Corville.
>> Corville. Okay. So, this one's here
[19:31] locally. Um motion.
>> I make the motion. I want to talk about
[19:36] this one for a minute.
>> Yep. Uh before we approve, right?
[19:40] » Any second?
>> Also, can I
[19:43] » Okay. Any uh discussion?
>> Danny, fill me in.
[19:47] » Um I mean uh Shah conference is all the
chiefs in the state of Iowa get together
[19:53] collectively. Um we do invite some
sheriffs there even though they have
[19:58] their own conference. Um it's just a
it's a good networking
[20:03] um conference. Um get collectively
together. We have speakers there. Um so
[20:09] really good speakers. Um on top of that,
it does um add to my training hours for
[20:15] the year. My recommended training hours
for the year, which is I get 45 training
[20:19] hours, the three-day event.
Um I'm also on another board there which
[20:25] is the I represent
um almost 70% of Iowa police departments
[20:31] which is a small I'm the chairperson for
the small small agency committee. Um I
[20:37] got nominated at the same time. So
there's still a lot on my plate. So once
[20:40] again it's honor do that. Um we meet um
through Zoom probably every three
[20:46] months. were supposed to meet this last
Friday down in um
[20:51] oh my god
in Brainford West Liberty but due to the
[20:56] weather I did not drive down there but
anyways um so then whatever we do
[21:00] throughout the year as a um small
committee I have a couple people
[21:04] underneath me kind of like mayor and
city council um I at that conference um
[21:10] basically I give a report for for the
month so there's a lot of vendors there.
[21:16] I mean, I think probably you guys
business people have been into
[21:20] conferences, enjoy spenders there trying
to give us spend us spend money,
[21:24] whatnot. Um, the last three years, our
car here at Hudson was a um used as a a
[21:30] show car. I think our post on our
Facebook page, which is also an honor
[21:35] for um our company, which is sector. So
as I like I said it's good um good
[21:42] speakers, good learning, good training
and uh great networking
[21:46] » cost
>> um it's 225 for the um
[21:54] conference and then it's 39 for the
hotel. So total I think I put it 77 7
[22:00] something
>> 480 for the hotel 705 total cost
[22:04] and he does note that
you've got an available balance of
[22:09] 12,309 in your training budget and this
would come from there. So it's been
[22:14] budgeted.
>> Any other training coming between now
[22:18] and the end of this
>> for me? No. Other than in August, I do
[22:23] another um FBI
um training.
[22:27] » We're on our new budget here then.
>> Yeah. So, other than that, I have no
[22:31] other training
>> and that should be reimbursed to by the
[22:35] SBA other officers.
>> FBI. Yeah.
[22:41] » Nobody's put in for any extra training.
Um cuz I'm trying to be kind of budget
[22:45] friendly cuz um appreciate
>> that. Some categories that I am over
[22:49] budget at.
>> Y
[22:50] » so we can pull from there.
>> Also like Julie my budget I got pretty
[22:59] large amount there I can pull over
I'll set some stuff. So um but no other
[23:05] training I might have and no other
training you can I got three here. You
[23:10] guys going anywhere but I don't know.
I got a little bit so
[23:18] » yeah I I can tell you on staffing during
that time um
[23:23] because one we haven't talked about to
Walters yet and two far out I can look
[23:30] at it and try to estimate staffing but
we can u we've been finagling schedule
[23:36] for several months now we get something
>> and say that you were the only police
[23:42] chief in Iowa to go to this FBI.
>> Not the only I'm just the representative
[23:47] representative.
>> Yeah. Represent the state of Iowa. They
[23:49] pick one out of every
>> and then you had you said you had to
[23:51] report that to the this meeting and
coral bill then, right?
[23:55] » Yeah. We have our collective um chief
association board meeting.
[24:02] I'm gladly to report back to you if need
be.
[24:05] » Okay. And we'll uh since this is
job related, so I assume you're taking
[24:13] uh a police car, right?
>> Okay. Just want to put that out there so
[24:20] » so people know that if the the police
car is somewhere down
[24:27] it's on business and not personal use.
So people don't question that. Yeah, I
[24:34] with her about it. So that's why I'm
asking and pointing that out. So make it
[24:40] clear.
>> Like she like she said, you see at Texas
[24:43] House down in Corville,
grant they feed us, but sometimes I
[24:48] think last they had a shrimp boil last
year. I don't eat shrimp. So a bunch of
[24:52] us other chiefs went to um Texas.
>> One of the favorites.
[24:58] » All right. So if you see the police uh
chief truck uh there at Texas Roadhouse
[25:04] in Carbo, he's on on mission,
>> right? Okay.
[25:09] » All right. So
>> any concerns?
[25:11] » Okay. Any
>> All right. Uh all in favor
[25:17] » Oh, no. I'm We already discussed. You're
good. Uh all oppose.
[25:23] » Thank you.
>> Motion approved.
[25:25] » Thank you.
Next item, a request from public works
[25:30] director to have municipal pipe tool
perform shoreline cleaning and
[25:34] televising in the amount not to exceed
$30,272.78.
[25:43] Uh do we have a motion to proceed?
>> I'll make the motion.
[25:47] » Second
>> discussion or anything that you want to
[25:51] share? We
>> talked about this at the public works.
[25:53] This was the last section that hasn't
been camerared. and Hudson.
[25:58] » There might be some stragglers, but the
majority of it um we've been working the
[26:02] last last year we didn't do anything
with budget issues, but the years prior
[26:07] we tried to do a quarter a town each
year and we're been updating TV records
[26:11] because most of our TV records are NVH
still
[26:16] » and
get those updated. Um, like I said, we
[26:20] might have some strategies we got to
pick up in the next couple years, but
[26:24] hopefully this quote will go down a
little bit so we won't have to do
[26:27] televising. Um,
>> what does that mean? What what are we
[26:31] doing?
>> Yeah, they clean the sewer with a jeter
[26:33] and then they follow it with a robotic
camera and they inspect the pipe from
[26:38] the inside. So we can check for tree
roots, offset pipes, blockages,
[26:44] the prevent backups, which we don't have
many backups.
[26:49] I think in the 11 years I've been here,
we've had about six sewer backups.
[26:53] » Okay.
>> Just because preventative maintenance is
[26:57] located.
>> So you said we do about a quarter of the
[26:59] town every year.
>> For cleaning life, we try to do a
[27:02] quarter town each year.
>> Okay. And how often do we tell advice?
[27:07] Well, not very often
>> it should have that on like a 10 to 15
[27:13] year cycle.
>> Yeah.
[27:15] » Because obviously the ground rules
everything changes and then that tells
[27:18] us if we need to line we've got a lot of
infiltration ground
[27:22] that will overwhelm our sewer and stuff
like that.
[27:25] » Okay.
>> Well, Julie's like budget wise we're
[27:31] » good there.
>> This falls right in our line item
[27:34] budget. Yeah.
[27:39] So,
anybody anybody have any other questions
[27:43] or discussions?
Okay. Um, so all in favor to approve
[27:48] these I
>> all oppose
[27:54] motion carried.
[27:58] And last but not least, uh, some
informationational items there. June 20,
[28:07] that's
>> January 21st, uh, parks and recreation
[28:11] meeting minutes. Uh, February 11th,
public works meeting minutes. You'll
[28:16] find us online, too. Uh, reminders.
Next, public works committee meeting,
[28:22] March 11th at 7:00 a.m. Personal Admin
Finance Committee, March 23rd at 4:45.
[28:30] Public and safety, February 26 at 400
pm.
[28:34] And next council meetings uh March 9th
and March 23rd and Thursday
[28:40] » and Thursday. Well, we just added that
5:00
[28:44] special meeting.
Do we have a motion for a journ?
[28:50] » Second.
All in favor?
[28:55] All
>> oppose? Nobody. Motion carried.
[29:00] To the night.